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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:00 pm 
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Citizens in the United States have enjoyed the lawful recognition of fundamental human rights for most of the American Republic’s history. In Paragould, Arkansas, those days just ended. Officials in the crime-riddled town have announced new law enforcement policies that many are describing as martial law.

The Paragould Daily Press is reporting that the mayor and local police plan to launch a new law enforcement strategy for 2013 that involves equipping all officers with SWAT body armor, instructing police to open carry AR-15 rifles everywhere, and requiring all citizens to submit to ID checks when walking in public. Citizens in Paragould will soon be living in conditions similar to those in Afghanistan if these policies are not reversed.

High Crime Rates Used by Officials to Justify Martial Law

http://silverunderground.com/2012/12/fu ... -arkansas/

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Police chief says citizens could be subject to ID checks

In response to a recent increase in crime, Paragould Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall offered residents at a town hall meeting Thursday night at West View Baptist Church what could be considered an extreme solution — armed officers patrolling the streets on foot.

Stovall told the group of almost 40 residents that beginning in 2013, the department would deploy a new street crimes unit to high crime areas on foot to take back the streets.

"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."


http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/arti ... 092932.txt

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:10 pm 
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http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/12/15/top_story/doc50cbbb312e241511092932.txt

^^^ Don't go there; it'll make you dizzy. Worst newspaper web site evah.

No wonder the town is so poorly informed.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:12 pm 
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We do not need armed guards on the streets asking for ID. We'll do that at the kindergarten door, TYVM.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:13 pm 
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"[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, check for your ID."

AR-15s around the neck? That has to be harder to do than tying one of Sherman's Neckties.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:20 pm 
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Sequoia32 wrote:
http://www.paragoulddailypress.com/articles/2012/12/15/top_story/doc50cbbb312e241511092932.txt

^^^ Don't go there; it'll make you dizzy. Worst newspaper web site evah.

No wonder the town is so poorly informed.


WTF? The page randomly jumps about while you try to read it.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:26 pm 
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Oh, for Pete's sake! The Police Chief apparently believes that "the city's crime statistics alone met the threshold of reasonable suspicion required to lawfully accost a citizen."

It's been a while since I litigated a Terry stop issue, but doesn't it require individualized suspicion? I guess as a statistical matter all criminals arrested on the public sidewalks were breathing, but it doesn't follow that breathing in public provides enough individualized suspicion to support a stop. Yet another waste of court resources while this gets litigated.


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:36 pm 
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I know it's really hard to read that stupid page, but

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Stovall said he did not consult an attorney before announcing his plans to combat crime.


After this idiot made these claims at the town hall, both the mayor and the city attorney tried to walk it back.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:40 pm 
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Seems to me that in addition to "Terry", the Supreme Court has already set the limits for this kind of thing in Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz, 110 S.Ct. 2481 (1990), which deals with the legality of DUI checkpoints.

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Interesting place. The stats seem to agree that crime is a problem since 2005, when the crime index suddenly jumped 2.5 times and has stayed high. Mostly the jump was in thefts and burglaries. Crime stats: http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Pa ... ansas.html

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Population 22,017
97.87% White (AR 77%)
0.04% Black or African American, (15.4%)
0.42% Native American, (.08%)
0.22% Asian,
0.02% Pacific Islander,
0.56% from other races, and
0.86% from two or more races (2.0%)
1.33% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. (6.4%)

The median income for a household in the city was $30,815 (AR $39,806), per capita $18,076 (AR $36,027)
Paragould is home to Arkansas State University Paragould, Arkansas Northeastern College, Black River Technical College, and Crowley's Ridge College.

So -- poor, overwhelmingly white. Wonder if the crime wave is meth-related?

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:24 am 
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Looks like the policy is walking back.

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A statement released Dec. 21 by Paragould Police Chief Todd Stovall suggests that his department may be backing away from its earlier hard-line — and almost certainly unconstitutional — plan that would have allowed officers on patrol in SWAT fatigues and carrying assault rifles to demand the ID of people on the street and arrest anyone who failed to comply. Stovall now says officers will only stop people when there is "reasonable suspicion to believe criminal activity is happening."

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In the statement released Dec. 21, titled "Community Policing Clarification," Stovall dialed back his rhetoric even further, saying the Paragould PD is "committed to combating crime and insuring public safety without violating citizens' constitutional rights." Stovall said that while the department would be putting more officers on the east side of Paragould, which would necessarily "increase the number of police-citizen encounters," those encounters, Stovall said, would be done "within the bounds of the Constitution."


More here.,http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/paragould-patrols/Content?oid=2588126

The original Paragould website jumps around because the image slideshow has slides of different dimensions and the page doesn't fix the size of the box. If you pause the slide show, it stops hopping.

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Looks like the policy is walking back.

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Paragould patrols

A statement released Dec. 21 by Paragould Police Chief Todd Stovall suggests that his department may be backing away from its earlier hard-line — and almost certainly unconstitutional — plan that would have allowed officers on patrol in SWAT fatigues and carrying assault rifles to demand the ID of people on the street and arrest anyone who failed to comply. Stovall now says officers will only stop people when there is "reasonable suspicion to believe criminal activity is happening."

:::snip:::

In the statement released Dec. 21, titled "Community Policing Clarification," Stovall dialed back his rhetoric even further, saying the Paragould PD is "committed to combating crime and insuring public safety without violating citizens' constitutional rights." Stovall said that while the department would be putting more officers on the east side of Paragould, which would necessarily "increase the number of police-citizen encounters," those encounters, Stovall said, would be done "within the bounds of the Constitution."


More here.,http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/paragould-patrols/Content?oid=2588126

The original Paragould website jumps around because the image slideshow has slides of different dimensions and the page doesn't fix the size of the box. If you pause the slide show, it stops hopping.


Is it too cynical of me to immediately assume that the least white part of Paragould is the east side?

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 9:22 am 
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Is it too cynical of me to immediately assume that the least white part of Paragould is the east side?

See W4's reported stats above. This appears to be a lily-white town. Assessing the census numbers, it has only about nine or ten African-American residents plus a smattering of mixed-race, etc.

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Piffle wrote:
Mikedunford wrote:
Is it too cynical of me to immediately assume that the least white part of Paragould is the east side?

See W4's reported stats above. This appears to be a lily-white town. Assessing the census numbers, it has only about nine or ten African-American residents plus a smattering of mixed-race, etc.


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