So, does your pocketknife have a clip?

Post #395,488 by dmcarls 10/15/14 9:37:30 AM Reply	So, does your pocketknife have a clip? "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" Macbeth [...] "Matt Galluzzo, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, now a defense attorney in private practice, says that for many officers, a gravity-knife arrest is simply a hard collar to pass up. "You don't have to fight the guy, you don't have to chase him," Galluzzo says. "It's an easy way to make an arrest. And they're under pressure to make arrests." A poster on Officer.com, a verified online message board for law enforcement officers, put it bluntly in 2013 when he advised a rookie to be on the lookout for "GKs": "make sure they have a prior conviction so you can bump it up to that felony!!!" [...] http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2014/10/nyc-gravity-knife-law-arrests.php
Post #395,489 by drook 10/15/14 9:56:28 AM Reply	This pisses me off Not talking about the knife thing, though that does. But this: Carla Glaser, 47, who served as a juror on a gravity-knife case in Manhattan, calls the situation "ludicrous." She still feels sick about the conviction she was compelled to hand out, to a man who was initially stopped by police for being in a city park after nightfall. Although the law was, in her view, deeply flawed, she felt she had no choice but to vote with the majority. Glaser herself carries a Swiss Army knife on her keychain. "It just seemed like a trumped-up charge," she says. "And it certainly doesn't seem like it's enforced equally across the board." You weren't "compelled" to do a goddamn thing. You chose to convict someone that you believed hadn't done anything wrong. You fail as a juror and as a citizen. -- Drew
Post #395,522 by Ashton 10/16/14 6:26:23 AM Reply	Alas too, jury nullification works! ... but only with an informed and participating citizenry. Yeah, at 47, you're supposed to be an Adult.

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