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The Search for the 6-year-old girl’s killer continues in Miami-Dade
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The Search for the 6-year-old girl’s killer continues in Miami-Dade
No clue for a 6-year-old girl's killer! And there will be none from a silent, consenting urban community, who pretends to be seized by sorrow but does nothing to identify the culpable anonymously. Sadly, this child will not be the last, but one of many, many more to be victimized. Violence is in Miami's urbanites' hearts and souls.
A "Quantum of Solace?" For the Miami Police Department, all police agencies in Miami Dade County experiencing unabated violent crimes; apply STOP and FRISK consistent with the intent, letter and spirit enunciated in Terry v Ohio 1968. This crime preventing, landmark US Supreme Court decision has not been overturned and remains very much in effect.
STOP and FRISK is a two-part process; first, there is the Stop, based on the officers' experience and training, giving rise to an alarm -- Reasonable Ground to believe -- that a suspect has committed, is committing or is about to commit a crime. The Stop, authorized by FSS 901.151, The Florida Stop and Frisk Law, authorizes the officers to conduct a brief preliminary investigation to determine whether or not a crime occurred, is about to or will be occorring. Critical to the Stop's validity, before allowing the suspect to dispel officers' alarm, officers must advise the suspect of his or her Miranda Rights. Do not, and whatever charges derived from the Stop, the SAO will No Actioned. This has been the investigative protocol since the 1975 State v Ecker.
Should after Miranda, the suspect refuse to provide his or her name, an element for arrest under L&P FSS 856.21, or refusal to dispel officers' alarm or provide a response that is totally inconsistent with the circumstances that led to the Stop, Arrest.
Notice, we have not yet mentioned the FRISK. That step takes place when officers observe, projecting from the suspect's clothing, a bulge, where normally urban denizens concealed carry weapons. Then, for the officers' safety, a pat-down of the suspect's outer clothing, not a search, can be made. When such a pat-down reveals what, again, based on the officers' experience and training, could be a weapon or drugs, the officers may retrieve such item(s) and charge L&P, plus additional charges consistent with the search results.
Sadly, this is all aspirational, as the political and police bureaucratic classes, cowards they are, will not approve it and less the urban communities grand poohbahs. Racial Profiling they will holler; it is not! While the improvised memorials rise where the children were murdered, and loud, but empty voices clamor for a stop to the violence, more 6 year old boys and girls will continue to die as a result of uncontrolled urban street violence. Urban violent offenders will never be deterred by niceties and platitudes. They interpret such banalities as weakness; they are, emboldening them to persist on the murderous course.
Knowledge is power, inform yourselves!
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/.../0856.021.html
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1967/67
https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionar...onable-grounds
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/.../0901.151.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/florida...5/44348-0.html
Thank you, Moderator, for posting our comment intact. Old Voices from a Policing culture of long, long ago, and era far, far away.