Is Stop and Frisk Racial Profiling?

        The controversial Police Department's program emphasizes on stop, questioning, searching and sometimes a temporarily detaining of civilians on the street. The goal of the program is to identify possible crimes and prevent them. There has been a strong criticism of the program, regarding its execution. Critics of the program argue that Police Officers engage in activities that profile young African American and Hispanic men. Many books and articles have been written about this problem and the following are a few of such credible sources that sheds light on this issue.
        The first source is The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. It is a government organization that serves as an interagency for more that 90 federal law enforcement agencies. It also provides training on law related issues and trends to local, state and international law enforcement agencies. It is under the Department of Homeland Security, and monitors everything that happens in the United States especially things that relate to security. This source explains the Stop and Frisk Program and highlights how stop and question is the proper way, but frisk in special instances when an officer has a justifiable threat to life. It talks about how not every stop should lead to a frisk. It also talks about how the program should operate with no specific target groups. I trust this source because it's a well regulated United States government  training organization that uses facts and authentic material for it's work.
        The second source is The New York Times. It is a very reputable daily news paper that has been around since 1851.It is the largest circulating news paper in the United States and has won over 122 Pulitzer prizes for excellence in news paper journalism. A big and reputable news paper agency like The New York Times has a very rigorous process of reporting, to minimize fake news. Their writers are experienced, and the articles are reviewed by expert editors before they are published. The article from this source sheds light on some of the everyday problems of the Stop and Frisk Program. It gives statistics of the program and how African American and Latino young men have been the targets of the program. It also talks about how the program violated the constitutional rights of innocent New Yorkers with reference to the 4th and 14th amendments. I trust this source because the  article was written in one of the biggest and most reputable daily news paper agencies in the world.
        The third source is The Center for Constitutional Rights. This is a progressive non-profit legal advocacy organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1966, and particularly supports activists in the implementation of civil rights legislation to achieve social justice. This source sheds light on the Stop and Frisk program by reporting some of the class action lawsuits brought against the City of New York for Stop and Frisk incidents. They represented some of these cases, in which the court outcome addressed the city to reform the program. I trust this source because it's a civil liberty group of expert attorneys that fight for social justice. This source reports the first hand information of the case it represented.

Works Cited

 Argiriou, Steven L, Terry Frisk Update. The Law Field Examples and Analysis. www.fletc.gov, ND. web, 21 October 2017.

Flegenheimer, Matt, New Message on Frisking From De Blasio's City Hall amid criticism. www.nytimes.com, 12 June 2015, web 15 October 2017.

Center For Constitutional Rights. Floyd et al. v. City of New York et al. www.ccrjustice.org. 9 June 2017, web, 16 October 2017.