ACLU Sues Milwaukee Over Police Stop-and-Frisk Policy

[Wingnut]

 by Trymaine Lee

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee and its police chief over the department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which the civil liberties group says has been used to unfairly target black and Latino residents.

In the suit filed on Wednesday, the ACLU claims that since 2010 the police department has "engaged in an unlawful policy, practice, and custom of conducting a high-volume, suspicionless stop-and-frisk program" that allowed officers to stop people without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

The policy has "created and deepened public fear of and alienation from" the police department, the suit states.

"Black and Latino people throughout Milwaukee — including children — fear that they may be stopped, frisked, or otherwise treated like criminal suspects when doing nothing more than walking to a friend's house or home from school, driving to and from the homes of loved ones, running errands, or simply taking a leisurely walk or drive through the city," the suit says.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/aclu-sues-milwaukee-police-over-stop-frisk-policy-n724231

[goatprairie]

I read the CBS and sometimes ABC on-line news from Milwaukee every morning. It's a rare day when there isn't a report of a shooting, stabbing, robbery, or some sort of violence with blacks and Latinos the usual perps and victims.
Milwaukee had a huge spike in homicides in the last few years with young, black males being the perps and victims the overwhelming majority of the time.
I think many black and Latino leaders are quite unwilling to face the amount of crime in their communities perpetrated by their own.  It's about time they learned that no city should have to tolerate the staggering amount of crime committed by certain demographics.