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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.”
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by isostatic on Monday November 24 2014, @10:12AM
This is not news for nerds. Is there a way to block this clickbait crap?
(Score: 1) by CirclesInSand on Monday November 24 2014, @10:22AM
I consider civics to be a respectable subject to discuss. It's not like they are name dropping political parties here (which I would consider to be mindless mob fodder).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @11:05AM
news for nerds
That's a different site.
block this
It was clear from the title what the subject was.
You could have scrolled right past this story.
clickbait
The only problem here is YOUR lack of impulse control.
For the zillionth time, if you don't like the content, submit items that do suit you.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday November 24 2014, @12:28PM
You know how you wake up in the morning and don't repeatedly smack yourself in the forehead with a hammer?
Apply that by not clicking on articles that don't appear interesting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @05:47PM
You know how you wake up in the morning and don't repeatedly smack yourself in the forehead with a hammer?
Er...umm.... It's the only way I can wake myself up!!!
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday November 24 2014, @06:27PM
I might try that technique because caffeine has moderate effectiveness.
1702845791×2
(Score: 1) by lentilla on Monday November 24 2014, @02:34PM
Maybe isostatic is right - it's not really news for true nerds. I personally don't have much interaction with the police because I don't like to get out much, well, except for that one time my Mom let them in the house and they knocked on the basement door. Man, I never knew you could shove that many empty soda bottles and Cheetos packets under a single bed.
(Score: 1) by srobert on Monday November 24 2014, @04:07PM
"This is not news for nerds."
Not exclusively. It's news for everyone and that includes nerds.
I outgrew "news for nerds". That's why I'm here instead of the other site.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @04:53PM
Yeah append this to your hosts file:
127.0.0.1 soylentnews.org
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 24 2014, @06:43PM
APK, is that you?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday November 24 2014, @05:53PM
You know, one of the nice things about being white in the US is that you can choose not to think about the threat that cops present to you. Black and Hispanic people don't have that luxury.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday November 25 2014, @03:07AM
Only if you also don't have any developmental, sensory, or mental health conditions, or anything else that results in 'odd' behavior (like the loopy state diabetics can fall into). People in those categories tend to either react too slowly, have the 'wrong' body language, misunderstand what we're told to do, move too jerkily, or any of a dozen other "faults," and routinely end up tasered or shot.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday November 24 2014, @11:43PM
Nerds carrying USB-memory may have them trashed, or being frisked on the way to a demo party, or just need an excuse to disrupt the playing field for the cops as the nerd IQ is likely higher than that of cops..
It's also an observation of the creepy encroachment of the police state into public life.