We Need to Know Our Rights!!!

We as people need to become more knowledgeable of the governments control of the American public. In the book The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander talks about how police works around one of the rules the founding fathers set out. The 4 Amendment is right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the person's or thing to be seized. The Fourth Amendment gives a person the ability to avoid police searches. The text states, "Courts and scholars agree that the Fourth Amendment governs all searchers and seizures by the police and that the amendment was adopted in response to the English practice of conducting arbitrary searches under general warrants to uncover seditious libels."   Later the Supreme Court had began to unravel the protection for Americans. In the early 1980s a series of Fourth Amendment rights have been broken. The police had found a new tactic to use undermined the Fourth Amendment. In which the police goes by as long as the person gives consent, the police officer can stop, interrogate, and search a person for any reason or no reason at all. Police use the same tactic today to target African American men especially on the War on Drugs. Its hard as black man walking the streets of Philly. When a cop car drives around you the only thing you want to do is get out of dodge. As for me when I see law enforcement I try to avoid walking on the same street as them because it seems like they always want to target us. There have been a few times I heard of my friends being pinned down to a police car for no reason. My friend submitted there rights to the police officer when they didn't even know they have the right to tell law enforcement no they can't search them. Once they gave the officers consent it was too late. I believe that African Americans especially in the poor neighborhoods should be educated on the rights that they obtain.