I would say it depends on how they act. If they are acting as this person in the article makes it sound, then it is a bad thing. Just stopping you and searching you in the halls is a violation of your 4th and 5th amendment. Being black or latino and being in a hallway is not a crime. Having a police presence is one thing, but if you go out to take tha garbage out and you are getting frisked or arrested by the cops...then I would say...if that is what is actually happening...i hope they nail the cops to the wall.
-----Original Message----- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Class Action Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Patrols of Private Apartment Buildings Interesting. My understanding is that the landlord has to have explicitly requested these patrols for them to occur. In Atlanta, we've given the local security patrol (off duty cops) keys to our condo building and they do periodic patrols, questioning strange people. That's not only okay with me, but expected. So at it's core is this a landlord vs tenant rights issue? -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349292 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
