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posted by LaminatorX on Monday November 24 2014, @06:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the life-skills dept.

Kate Briquelet reports in the NY Post that Principal Mark Federman of East Side Community HS has invited the New York Civil Liberties Union to give a two-day training session to 450 students on interacting with police. “We’re not going to candy-coat things — we have a problem in our city that’s affecting young men of color and all of our students,” says Federman. “It’s not about the police being bad. This isn’t anti-police as much as it’s pro-young people . . . It’s about what to do when kids are put in a position where they feel powerless and uncomfortable.” The hourlong workshops — held in small classroom sessions during advisory periods — focused on the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program and how to exercise Fourth Amendment rights when being stopped and questioned in a car or at home.

Some law-enforcement experts say the NYCLU is going beyond civics lessons and doling out criminal-defense advice. “It’s unlikely that a high school student would come away with any other conclusion than the police are a fearful group to be avoided at all costs,” says Eugene O’Donnell, a former police officer and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. NYCLU representatives told kids to be polite and to keep their hands out of their pockets. But they also told students they don’t have to show ID or consent to searches, that it’s best to remain silent, and how to file a complaint against an officer. Candis Tolliver, NYCLU’s associate director for advocacy, says was the first time she trained an entire high school. “This is not about teaching kids how to get away with a crime or being disrespectful. This is about making sure both sides are walking away from the situation safe and in control.”

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @07:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @07:32AM (#119342)

    Where is back here in europe, don't just put us all in one basket.

  • (Score: 2) by quadrox on Monday November 24 2014, @07:46AM

    by quadrox (315) on Monday November 24 2014, @07:46AM (#119346)

    Mostly my experiences are from Denmark and Germany.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by cubancigar11 on Monday November 24 2014, @07:59AM

      by cubancigar11 (330) on Monday November 24 2014, @07:59AM (#119348) Homepage Journal

      I had consistent bad experience all over France. I am Indian. I have been stopped, taken over to police station, one policemen started behaving as if he has caught a criminal in front of others, passport taken for 'inspection' (and then returned after 10 minutes), taken to railway station where my stuff was in the locker and asked to show what was in it (nothing but dirty socks that smelled so bad, they refused to check other bags :p), handcuffed for an hour then released.

      In Germany, policemen have only stopped me to check ID and then left me alone, but I also had good encounters - once in Frankfurt I was confused which S-Bahn to take and was running all over the station trying to figure it out (I spoke no German then) when a policewoman came and helped me out.