Simpleton Mayor does not believe that the 4th Amendment applies to Blacks & Latinos. Similar to the restrictions in Arizona, Bloomberg wants to stop or detain all non-white people because they are non-white. The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although only one sentence long, protects people against unjustified detentions by the government. It reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Stop & Frisk is Unconstitutional and factually unsupportable. According to the department's own data:

• The NYPD stopped and questioned 685,724 people in 2011 - a 600 percent increase since Mayor Bloomberg took office.
• Of the 685,724 stops, only 1.9 percent resulted in the recovery of a weapon.
• Nine out of 10 people stopped were not charged with any crime or infraction. 
• 87 percent of people stopped were Black or Hispanic.
• And while Blacks and Latinos were far more likely to be stopped, whites were almost twice as likely to be found carrying a weapon. [MORE] and [MORE]

From [HERE] A teenager who was caught with a gun during a stop and frisk in the Bronx in 2010 had his conviction overturned by an appeals court, infuriating the Bloomberg administration. Darryl Craig, 14, had been sentenced to 18 months’ probation, but yesterday the appeals court ruled that the cop had no legal grounds for the search. It just so happens that three months after that arrest, Craig allegedly used another gun to shoot a gang rival in Queens. Now NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly and his house organ the NY Post are up in arms, as is Mayor Bloomberg, who was asked about the appeals court decision at the McCarren Park Pool ribbon-cutting today.

"It was a loaded gun," Bloomberg incredulously told reporters in response to a question about the appeal. "Are you supposed to give the kid a flower and send him on his way? I don't know what these judges were thinking." Today the Post has two articles on the decision, which is being framed as some sort of emblematic lesson about the virtues of stop and frisk and the recklessness of those who criticize the policy.