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...said we should use dogs to accompany men on the beat. And I said I wanted the force in high-crime areas to carry shotguns. And I said I wanted to concentrate men in these high-crime areas, and that I wanted them to use the stop-and-frisk law more." Word of his crackdown reached the press, and suddenly he found he had struck a deep, responsive chord throughout the U.S. He received, by his count, 8,000 letters and telegrams. Only 22 were disapproving...
...that not only arbitrary law enforcement, but also the laws that lend themselves to it, deserve close judicial scrutiny. In this context, the long-standing practice of holding persons on suspicion of having committed a felony becomes highly questionable. So, probably, does the Commonwealth's recently enacted stop-and-frisk...
...right to privacy, the court has agreed to rule whether or not an unconstitutional search occurs when a phone booth is bugged by a device on top of but not physically penetrating the booth. It will also decide whether various state laws permitting police to stop and frisk a suspicious person violate the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches. And, in still another case involving the rights of a potential criminal defendant, it will consider whether requiring the purchase of a federal gambling stamp constitutes unlawful compulsion to provide self-incriminatory information...
...civil rights, Soapy had been helping Negroes and laborers when Cavanagh was in short pants-and they knew it. Cavanagh's 1% city income tax in Detroit proved unpopular, and many Negroes were alienated when he toyed earlier this year with the idea of a "stop-and-frisk law" that would allow police to search suspicious persons. Then, too, there was Viet Nam. Though Cavanagh vaguely supported the Johnson Administration's policies, an image of the dove fluttered above him after he advocated a cease-fire and the creation of a buffer state between North and South. Williams...
...handed down a hint of its own attitude in last month's Miranda v. Arizona decision, which affirmed the rights to silence and to counsel as soon as a person is "deprived of his freedom of action in any way." On the other hand, defenders of stop-and-frisk laws see the court leaning their "reasonable" way because it declared in 1963 (Ker v. California): "The states are not precluded from developing workable rules to meet the practical demands of effective criminal investigation and law enforcement in the states, provided that those rules do not violate the constitutional proscription...