Paging Due Process...Due Process to Philadelphia, please

Ramsey said he and Nutter were in agreement on Nutter's crime-fighting strategy, including Nutter's promise to employ a controversial "stop, question and frisk" policy to target illegal weapons.

Though outgoing Commissioner Johnson has warned that Nutter's stop-and-frisk strategy could risk "disaster" by alienating the public, Ramsey said the aggressive tactic was a "valuable tool" as long as it was conducted within the law.

"You need reasonable suspicion in order to stop them," Ramsey said in an interview the day his selection was announced. "There's a way in which you interact with people - you don't want to alienate folks by being rude and abusive. Usually when people get stopped by policemen, what they complain about is not the initial stop, they complain about they way they were treated and disrespected by the police officers." (link)

No, what makes people feel alienated is the arbitrary revocation of their constitutional rights, dumbass.

As much as I wish it were, owning a gun is not illegal. Therefore, even if Officer Joe Incompetent, star of the Philadelphia Police, sees someone who he thinks is carrying a gun, there's no probable cause to stop them. If Officer Joe sees someone who he thinks is carrying a gun, and matches the description of someone who was recently involved in a shooting, then sure, stop him. But unless there's that probable cause, the police have absolutely no right to stop you.