A controversial police tactic is getting pitched as a way to crack down on Cincinnati's street violence.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is floating the idea of "stop and frisk" for Cincinnati police."'Stop and frisk' is not the answer, it's not a solution, it is not an option for the Cincinnati police department," Cincinnati Activist Iris Roley said. "It's received a connotation of racism, which I think is wrong," Deters said.Since Sunday's deadly shooting in Smale Park involving two teenagers, Deters has thrown out "stop and frisk" as a potential solution. "I told Eliot this, they're the police officers, they can sift policy and do whatever they want. We deal with it afterwards. I just told him, you do have the ability, if these officers think that someone's carrying or they're a danger to the officer to 'stop and frisk' them," Deters said. Northern Kentucky University law professor Michael Mannheimer said the threshold for reasonable suspicion is fairly low. He says while the constitution forbids intentional discrimination, it doesn't speak to implicit bias."We just have no legal doctrine to deal with it in this area. The most we can do is train police officers on implicit bias," Mannheimer said."Are there racist people out there? Of course there are, but that doesn't mean that we just ignore criminals," Deters said.Roley said the police chief and Mayor Cranley have told her this will not be acceptable.
A controversial police tactic is getting pitched as a way to crack down on Cincinnati's street violence.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters is floating the idea of "stop and frisk" for Cincinnati police.
"'Stop and frisk' is not the answer, it's not a solution, it is not an option for the Cincinnati police department," Cincinnati Activist Iris Roley said.
"It's received a connotation of racism, which I think is wrong," Deters said.
Since Sunday's deadly shooting in Smale Park involving two teenagers, Deters has thrown out "stop and frisk" as a potential solution.
"I told Eliot this, they're the police officers, they can sift policy and do whatever they want. We deal with it afterwards. I just told him, you do have the ability, if these officers think that someone's carrying or they're a danger to the officer to 'stop and frisk' them," Deters said.
Northern Kentucky University law professor Michael Mannheimer said the threshold for reasonable suspicion is fairly low. He says while the constitution forbids intentional discrimination, it doesn't speak to implicit bias.
"We just have no legal doctrine to deal with it in this area. The most we can do is train police officers on implicit bias," Mannheimer said.
"Are there racist people out there? Of course there are, but that doesn't mean that we just ignore criminals," Deters said.
Roley said the police chief and Mayor Cranley have told her this will not be acceptable.
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