Police plan to seal off some areas of D.C.

[FlameOfCallandor]

http://www.examiner.com/a-1423820~Lanier_plans_to_seal_off_rough__hoods_in_latest_effort_to_stop_wave_of_violence.html

D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.
Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.

Lanier has been struggling to reverse D.C.’s spiraling crime rate but has been forced by public outcry to scale back several initiatives including her “All Hands on Deck” weekends and plans for warrantless, door-to-door searches for drugs and guns.

Under today’s proposal, the no-go zones will last up to 10 days, according to internal police documents. Front-line officers are already being signed up for training on running the blue curtains.

Peter Nickles, the city’s interim attorney general, said the quarantine would have “a narrow focus.”

“This is a very targeted program that has been used in other cities,” Nickles told The Examiner. “I’m not worried about the constitutionality of it.”

Others are. Kristopher Baumann, chairman of the D.C. police union and a former lawyer, called the checkpoint proposal “breathtaking.”

Shelley Broderick, president of the D.C.-area American Civil Liberties Union and the dean of the University of the District of Columbia’s law school, said the plan was “cockamamie.”

“I think they tried this in Russia and it failed,” she said. “It’s just our experience in this city that we always end up targeting poor people and people of color, and we treat the kids coming home from choir practice the same as we treat those kids who are selling drugs.”

The proposal has the provisional support of D.C. Councilman Harry “Tommy” Thomas, D-Ward 5, whose ward has become a war zone.

“They’re really going to crack down on what we believe to be a systemic problem with open-air drug markets,” Thomas told The Examiner.

Thomas said, though, that he worried about D.C. “moving towards a police state.”

[MrAngryFace]

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[FlameOfCallandor]

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I know, but would it really surprise you if it turns out to be true?

[Eric P]

i'm from DC and it is true

my friends are mounting protests

[FlameOfCallandor]

i'm from DC and it is true

my friends are mounting protests

Do you have the proper papers for your act of free speech?

[Eric P]

you don't know how true that statement is.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Why do you think I posted it?

[Eric P]

you haven't seen the absurdity of cops on segways harassing teenage kids

it's like bike cops times a billion

[FlameOfCallandor]

Luckily I live in a somewhat sane place, but I can imagine what kind of shit happens in D.C.

[Eric P]

i'm sorry, what part of texas are you from?

[FlameOfCallandor]

i'm sorry, what part of texas are you from?

Austin

[BlueTsunami]

you haven't seen the absurdity of cops on segways harassing teenage kids

it's like bike cops times a billion

From a technological viewpoint (as far as the Segways go) I imagine it being like Minority Report

[Tauntaun]

It's bullshit is what it is. 

[FlameOfCallandor]

you haven't seen the absurdity of cops on segways harassing teenage kids

it's like bike cops times a billion

From a technological viewpoint (as far as the Segways go) I imagine it being like Minority Report

Its like if minority report took place in 2002.

[Positive Touch]

what in the hell

we're seriously using the same strategies we used un iraq for our own fucking neighborhoods?  how is legal?  

and it says that lainer had planned on carrying out warrentless searches too?  somebody please tell me how this is happening?

[FlameOfCallandor]

what in the hell

we're seriously using the same strategies we used un iraq for our own fucking neighborhoods?  how is legal?  

and it says that lainer had planned on carrying out warrentless searches too?  somebody please tell me how this is happening?

hmmmmmm If only we had a document that told us what the laws of the land were.

[Positive Touch]

goddamn it i really can't stand FoC

[FlameOfCallandor]

goddamn it i really can't stand FoC

I think we used to have something that gave us basic rights but that was like 200-something years ago. LAWL

[Phoenix Dark]

"why don't they just throw all the black people out of DC"

-my black friend Walt 

[FlameOfCallandor]

I'm against putting the black neighborhoods in a police state adn your friends want them to be thrown out and somehow I'm the racist. 

[Phoenix Dark]

i should get walt to post here. he's more of a larouche guy than a paul guy though

[Eric P]

what in the hell

we're seriously using the same strategies we used un iraq for our own fucking neighborhoods?  how is legal? 

and it says that lainer had planned on carrying out warrentless searches too?  somebody please tell me how this is happening?

it wasn't legal, it wasn't done.

it was part of a series of basically desperate initiatives.

[Positive Touch]

thanks eric for the HELPFUL answer

[CajoleJuice]

sounds like something out of The Wire

[AdmiralViscen]

i should get walt to post here. he's more of a larouche guy than a paul guy though

Do it, I want to see this tag team.

[Tauntaun]

"why don't they just throw all the black people out of DC"

-my black friend Walt 

[APF]

sounds like something out of The Wire

That's what I thought too.  Just happen to be watching the 3rd season atm

[Brehvolution]

goddamn it i really can't stand FoC

I think he is hilarious. And he only uses top notch dorks for his avatar also.

*daps FoC*

[Tauntaun]

goddamn it i really can't stand FoC

I think he is hilarious. And he only uses top notch dorks for his avatar also.

*daps FoC*

If there's one thing we can say about FoC, it's that Freaks and Geeks is amazing. 

[Brehvolution]

"why don't they just throw all the black people out of DC"

-my black friend Walt 

They could go to Please, Niger.

[Tauntaun]

"why don't they just throw all the black people out of DC"

-my black friend Walt 

They could go to Please, Niger.

It's a friendly place.   So did this actually happen or going to happen?  I need resolution son.

[Himu]

this is a ploy by the white man to get rid of minoritites.

[Tauntaun]

this is a ploy by the white man to get rid of minoritites.

I say we meet in the park and storm capitol hill! 

[Eric P]

this is a ploy by the white man to get rid of minoritites.

shit.  the secret's out

we must destroy more inexpensive housing for developers to build luxury condos

[Brehvolution]

I bet there is more firepower in the places sectioned than the police are bringing.

[Mandark]

The Wire's gonna get referenced for the next decade by white people every time there's a story about urban blight.

Anyway DC's got the weird revival going on where some parts are getting all pale and gentrified, but the crime and education situations in the bad parts aren't really being addressed.  Makes me wonder if Silver Sprung is actually covering up some seedy suburban underbelly.

[APF]

lol white people are ignorant