"You would never go ahead with any story that would possibly jeopardise apprehending a criminal … or a prosecution," says Twomey.
"But we also have to be able to go to a crime in progress and apprehend a criminal without hurting ourselves.
"As inflammatory as this tape might be," Mayor Street said, "we have to keep in mind that the police were in the process of apprehending a criminal suspect who had resisted a number of attempts to arrest him and who had shot a police officer".
The civil rights organization reaffirmed its battle against police brutality, but added, "We favor the use of whatever force is necessary to stop a crime or to apprehend a criminal". Vincent Baker, the author of the report, testified that "the silent majority in Harlem would welcome a police order to get tough". He even advocated for a "stop and frisk" policy.
"But compelling minimal assistance to surveil or apprehend a criminal (as in most of the cases the government cites), or demanding testimony or production of things that already exist (akin to exercising subpoena power), is vastly different, and significantly less intrusive, than conscripting a private company to create something entirely new and dangerous.
"But compelling minimal assistance to surveil or apprehend a criminal (as in most of the cases the government cites), or demanding testimony or production of things that already exist (akin to exercising subpoena power), is vastly different, and significantly less intrusive, than conscripting a private company to create something entirely new and dangerous.
I assure you that my intention was to apprehend a violent criminal; it had nothing to do with profiling".
Mr. Kelly said that one of those yet to be apprehended, Gregory Portacio, had a criminal record that dated back about 30 years, when he was arrested for trying to steal a gold necklace from a pedestrian.
To further illustrate this distinction, consider that when one reads words such as justice and compassion in everyday encounters, such ideas are embedded in a situational context e.g., a criminal being apprehended by the police or a family rescuing a dog from an animal shelter, respectively.
For the British, a criminal justice issue – which is what the terrorist challenge represents – revolves around potentially dangerous criminals being apprehended along with admissible evidence so that they will eventually appear in court.
