{"id":6205,"date":"2011-10-30T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T12:55:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6205","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Sun: “Stop and frisk: The Fourth Amendment takes a hit”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Stop and frisk: The Fourth Amendment takes a hit | So what if it works? Is that worth sacrificing constitutional rights?<\/a> by Leonard Pitts Jr.:<\/p>\n

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…” \u2014 Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States<\/p>\n

Just in case you forgot.<\/p>\n

There has been, after all, an appalling amount of forgetting where that amendment is concerned. And New York City has become the epicenter of the amnesia. Yes, the “stop and frisk” policy of questioning and searching people a cop finds suspicious is used elsewhere as well. But it is in the big, bruised apple that the issue now comes to a head.<\/p>\n

Federal agents recently arrested a New York City cop on charges of violating the civil rights of an African-American man. Officer Michael Daragjati allegedly stopped the man in April and threw him against a parked van to search him. No drugs or weapons were found, but Mr. Daragjati reportedly became angry the man questioned his rough treatment and requested the officer’s name and badge number. So Mr. Daragjati ran him in on a charge of resisting arrest. Later, talking on the phone to a friend, he bragged that he had “fried another n—-r” and that it was “no big deal.” This was overheard by the feds, who had him under surveillance in a separate investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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