Concerned Citizens

Some citizens are so concerned with the law enforcement's stop and frisk policy that they are using social media to try to get their message across. The SanCopha League uses social media sights such as tumblr, Facebook, and twitter to expose corruption that exists. 

This is the original blog post about the stop and frisk policy that includes some interesting statistics. 

Police Planting Evidence, More Common Than You Think

The New York Times reported in 2011 that a Brooklyn detective was convicted of planting evidence on a man and woman, and faced up to four years in prison. This is an example of the "anything goes" attitude of law enforcement drug units. The original article can be found here.

It is important to ask ourselves how safe is this really making our society? Would it not make more sense to treat addiction as a public health issue rather than a crime? It is doubtful, with our ever present police culture in the U.S., that this will ever happen.

Law enforcement is able to release statistics of arrests that make it seem that they are taking violent criminals off the streets, but how many of these "violent criminals" were one time drug offenders, or even worse completely innocent?

The best way to protect yourself is to know your rights. This link will take you to a legal resource for how to handle wrongful incarceration.