Police will begin random luggage checks on interstate coach buses coming into the Port Authority, raising legal and civil liberties concerns due to the racist history of stop-and-frisk policing, and criminologists aren’t sure that it will be effective.
Port Authority Police conducting routine bag checks on commuters. They will soon begin checking luggage on buses arriving from out of state.Port Authority Police conducting routine bag checks on commuters. They will soon begin checking luggage on buses arriving from out of state.Police will begin random luggage checks on interstate coach buses coming into the Port Authority in an effort to stop an increasing number of guns coming across state lines, Gothamist has learned.
“The Port Authority Police Department is committed to keeping the region safe by working with the NYPD and other law enforcement entities including the respective task forces that have been established at the state and city level to combat illegal gun trafficking into NYC,” Port Authority spokesperson Amber Greene wrote in an email to Gothamist. She did not say when the checks would begin.
“It’s a basic principle of constitutional law that police can only search people if they have ‘individualized suspicion’ to think that the person is engaged in unlawful activity,” he said. “Random searches are an antithesis of ‘individualized suspicion,’ and the police have no authority simply to search people randomly.” He also said that random searches are particularly susceptible to racial profiling.
. A gun-sniffing dog identified the weapon during a search of the bus after it pulled into the station.the indictments of nine people they said illegally brought firearms from Georgia to New York on buses and in rental cars with the intention of selling them here. Even if gun traffickers do rely on buses, there are alternative ways of coming into the city — including on coach buses that let off on city streets. Checking all of those would be difficult.released in October, criminologists convened a group of 108 young people in the Bronx and Brooklyn to talk about guns in their neighborhoods — the ones they’ve carried, and the ones they've been shot at with. They repeatedly brought up “the South” when talking about where the weapons came from.
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