If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs

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If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs

A jump-out is typically described as multiple officers patrolling in an unmarked car, who at some point see something suspicious, and jump out of the car at once on unsuspecting pedestrians, with the intent of catching them off guard. Overwhelmingly, the jump-outs that have been reported involve at least one black male.

By Nicole Flatow for ThinkProgress | December 27, 2014

Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars came. It was about eight young black men, and her, a woman of Palestinian origin who describes herself as white.

“I can’t tell you how many vehicles descended upon us because it all happened so fast,” she said. The cars were unmarked. But she knew it was the cops when they jumped out in black vests and hats, some with their guns drawn, she said. Some she didn’t see jump from their cars, but they appeared instead to come out of nowhere. She estimates there were 10 or 12 officers in all. Two witnesses who live on the block confirmed seeing a group of about 8 people lined up against a wall and frisked. They did not see the initial jump-out and could not confirm whether officers had their guns drawn.

more... http://www.mintpressnews.com/thought-stop-frisk-bad-know-jump-outs/200247/
 
So what you say?

Black today...Brown and white tomorrow.
 
If You Thought Stop-And-Frisk Was Bad, You Should Know About Jump-Outs

A jump-out is typically described as multiple officers patrolling in an unmarked car, who at some point see something suspicious, and jump out of the car at once on unsuspecting pedestrians, with the intent of catching them off guard. Overwhelmingly, the jump-outs that have been reported involve at least one black male.

By Nicole Flatow for ThinkProgress | December 27, 2014

Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars came. It was about eight young black men, and her, a woman of Palestinian origin who describes herself as white.

“I can’t tell you how many vehicles descended upon us because it all happened so fast,” she said. The cars were unmarked. But she knew it was the cops when they jumped out in black vests and hats, some with their guns drawn, she said. Some she didn’t see jump from their cars, but they appeared instead to come out of nowhere. She estimates there were 10 or 12 officers in all. Two witnesses who live on the block confirmed seeing a group of about 8 people lined up against a wall and frisked. They did not see the initial jump-out and could not confirm whether officers had their guns drawn.

more... http://www.mintpressnews.com/thought-stop-frisk-bad-know-jump-outs/200247/

I hate to tell you, but this isn't a new police tactic. It's been going on for decades.
 
I don't like this tactic.

Has the constitutionality of this ever been challenged?
 
I don't like this tactic.

Has the constitutionality of this ever been challenged?

It should be and often!

If I didn't realize they were cops and I was in a strange city and nervous already...
 
I don't like this tactic.

Has the constitutionality of this ever been challenged?

I would challenge them. I suspect that if I was standing around with a group of armed rednecks, the cops likely wouldn't be checking our startle response.

In the pre-computers-in-cop-cars era, we had a little hiccup affording the mandatory car insurance. Getting caught is a $450 fine. Mrs. Query and I worked next to a cop substation in an upscale part of town. She left the driveway onto the major arterial and immediately passed the cop's driveway. Her destination to pick up Query Jr was an immediate right onto a minor arterial.

Cop pulls her over for "trying to evade him."

This kind of "why are you running after I started chasing you," or "why do you look nervous" sort of policing can only end in abuses and should be curtailed.

It is that very sort of contact that leads otherwise fairly reasonable people of color to assume that cops are racist pricks that are out to get them. The fact that these sort of tactics are used in those sorts of neighborhoods and not a Rotarian picnics reinforces that view. So, it is stupid.
 
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