Subway Searches Go To Court
Posted on October 31, 2005
Hat tip: Law Hawk
October 31, 2005 — The city must defend its subway-terror prevention program today in court, where lawyers will challenge the constitutionality of cops randomly searching passengers at platform entrances.
Five city residents, represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, claim their right to privacy was violated by the program.The NYCLU calls the program ineffective because cops check too few subway entrances and riders can refuse the searches and leave the subway system.
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City lawyers have noted that an al-Qaida training manual advising terrorists to avoid police checkpoints gives the city some justification for its random searches of bags entering the subway system.
Michael Cardozo of the city’s law office says he’s confident when the judge hears the evidence, he will find that the bag searches are perfectly constitutional and designed to protect the safety of all New Yorkers and visitors.
There is no satisfying the ACLU on this issue. They pretend to be concerned over privacy , calling the searches unreasonable. They are in fact very reasonable in protecting life, in today’s threatening environment of terror. I say they pretend to be concerned over privacy because they have shown they are against all searches of any kind. Here they are against random searches, in their lawsuit against the Tampa Bay Bucs they were against complete searches, and we all know they would be against profiled searches. It really seems to many of us that the ACLU are not concerned for American’s safety at all.
Hopefully common sense will guide the ruling in this case. I hope political correctness does not kill common sense this time around. It does so too often. The ACLU are clueless on this one. How about people’s right to live?
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If it made me late for my train, I’d be pissed, but all in all, good policy, they could, afterall, make everyone walk through a metal detector like at the airport.
I’m perfectly willing to give in to small inconveniences if it means that I’m not going to be blown up by some Muslim terrorist on his way to the ACLU Hall of Fame. As for any liberal that might associate themselves with the ACLU, some free advice: To win elections, and the hearts of Americans, you must protect them. Stay away from the ACLU and we might take you seriously.
“City lawyers have noted that an al-Qaida training manual advising terrorists to avoid police checkpoints gives the city some justification for its random searches of bags entering the subway system.”
How does this square with the fact that you can just turn around and refuse the search?
I’m wondering why this suit is deemed as having merit at all. Any search will be thought of a “unreasonable” by some. Public sentiment aside, NYC has to pay the costs of doing the searches, as well as being liable to anyone injured in a terrorist attack on the subway. The responsibility lies with the city to determine security levels and policies, not with a group of anti-American lawyers and sympathetic jurists!
“Public sentiment aside, NYC has to pay the costs of doing the searches, as well as being liable to anyone injured in a terrorist attack on the subway.”
are they really liable?
I’m against any and all searches no matter at the airport, at a government DUI checkpoint, in a government school, a subway or a bus. Next thing you know, they will be able to pull random people off the sidewalk for searches or even come into our homes without a warrant. That’s all these zealots need is more power over our lives. The Bill of Rights includes the Fourth Amendment for a reason. Terrorism and the War on Drugs are just excuses used by the authoritarians to strip away our precious rights.