Civil Rights Vs. Civil Liberties

Ritesh Manandhar Professor Sherry Sharifian Govt 2305-73431 10 February 2018 Civil Rights versus Civil Liberties Many Americans utilize the terms civil rights and civil liberties in similar ways and believing that both are principles that defend the rights or liberties of the people. However, we fail to realize the ideas that differentiate the two phrases. 2 Civil liberties are the basic rights and liberties that are promised by the government because of the Bill of Rights. Civil rights are the rights that are obligated by the government to assure equal treatment built on disability, race, gender, etc. The difference between civil rights and civil liberties is that civil liberties are rights that can’t be taken away by the government, while
I believe that the terry stop does violate the amendment by influencing a person’s right to be secure and violates the person’s privacy. Furthermore, there is an increased discrimination stop, especially to Hispanics and blacks. In Philadelphia, there is a protest going on because of illegal searches on African Americans. The cops are suspected to strip people down to their underwear in a public area. These searches are only acceptable in private areas and require the person to be arrested first. The fourth amendment is supposed to protect the people from searches and violation like these. Due to discrimination stops being more prevalent, there was New York case, Floyd v. City of New York, in which the court stated that the terry stop violates the fourth
Officers can track people based on how likely they are to commit a crime or their psychological behavior. There are many types of profiling such as offender profiling, criminal action profiling, and racial profiling. These types of profiling are still used today by police officers to the FBI. These actions can impact law enforcement decision by predicting that a person might be up to something illegal or is participating in criminal activity and using that to invade their property or privacy. Sometimes these techniques work, but sometimes they don’t can this can lead to cases regarding violation of the fourth amendment. This activity can completely negate one’s rights and they can be subjected to seizures, searches, or invasion based on their behavior or race. Furthermore, officers only need suspicion of a character to invade their privacy. The Supreme Court has made many decision regarding profiling such as the Terry v. Ohio, in which they decided that the constitutional rights given by the fourth amendment is not violated when officers search and seize item due to reasonable suspicion. This court case led to the creation of the stop-and-frisk which legalized stopping, questioning or searching people by police officers. There are also other cases such as United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States that deals with the involvement of police officer stopping vehicles. 4