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Evanston - Say Hello To STOP AND FRISK! Whats YOUR Profile??

The first piece of good news I have seen since this INSANE crime wave flared up.....the Evanston Mayor repeated Chief Eddington's remarks from a month or so ago....Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington says officers will step up stop-and-frisk activities in response to a recent wave of shooting incidents.

"One of the things I've worked very hard at is avoiding widespread use of stop-and-frisk," Eddington told about 120 people gathered at a 5th Ward meeting Thursday night. "But I can't do that no more," the chief said. "Sorry, this level of violence and use of guns is out of control." Stop and frisk will probably cause some of the minorities to start whining....but, that's just too bad....you can call it racial profiling and guess what....all of the shooting arrests and gangbangers seem to fit the profile so that the group that needs to be stopped and frisked.

In the United States, a Terry stop is a brief detention of a person by police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest.

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The name derives from Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that police may briefly detain a person who they reasonably suspect is involved in criminal activity; the Court also held that police may do a limited search of the suspect’s outer garments for weapons if they have a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the person detained may be “armed and dangerous”.When a search for weapons is authorized, the procedure is known as a “stop and frisk”.

Landlords can also give the police permission to enter their properties without warrants for the purpose of searching for contraband and weapons. Let's hope that the Evanston Police adopt a GUNG-HO NYPD style version of stop and frisk and make it so the vermin that carry illegal firearms pay an excruciating price for doing so

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