Perp walk
Perp walk is a US law enforcement practice, particularly in New York City , and denotes the public display of suspects. The term is derived from the phrase walking the perp , where perp is an abbreviation for perpetrator ( English for "criminal").
purpose
During the perp walk , the suspect is shown to the public in handcuffs or prison clothing. The perp walk thus serves the self-portrayal of the police, who can publicly present an investigation. The media representatives, previously informed by the press department of the police, have the opportunity to take photos or film recordings.
history
Originally the perp walk was only intended for serious crimes and is said to go back to J. Edgar Hoover . At the beginning of his career in times of the Red Fear , he considered it politically opportune to present enemy foreigners publicly in handcuffs. In the 1980s, Rudolph Giuliani expanded the perp walk in New York to include other crimes as a deterrent and became a public media event.
In the 21st century, perpendicular walks are increasingly being replaced by police photos ( mugshots ) published on the Internet .
Examples
During a perp walk was Lee Harvey Oswald , the alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy , on 24 November 1963 by Jack Ruby shot.
In 1987, the public prejudice of the stockbroker Richard Wigton for alleged insider trading made negative headlines, while other celebrities understand how to use the perp walk for their own publicity .
The demonstration by IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn in May 2011 , which was criticized as humiliating in France, attracted international attention .
criticism
In the opinion of critics, such demonstrations contradict the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence, which also applies in the USA .
In 1995, the compatibility of the perp walk with the 4th Amendment was affirmed in a New York court decision, but limited to cases of sufficient police prosecution interest. Beyond these and similar individual case decisions, the jurisprudential criticism with regard to the constitutional law of the United States has so far not been reflected in US procedural law.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doreen St. Félix: The Rush of Seeing Harvey Weinstein's Perp Walk The New Yorker , May 25, 2018 (English)
- ↑ James McWilliams: Perp Walk Politics: The Downsiedes of the Blue Carpet Pacific Standard, June 4, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Perp Walk: The History Of Parading Criminal Suspects National Public Radio , July 7, 2011 (English)
- ↑ John Steele Gordon: A Sad Case of Trial by 'Perp Walk' Barron's, March 30, 2009 (English)
- ^ The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Perp walk: The equality of America's justice system The Economist , May 18, 2011
- ↑ Icons of Guilt. Pictures of DSK arrest: "Perp Walk" is a tradition Kronenzeitung , May 22, 2011
- ↑ Katja Gelinsky: Photo shoot on the “Perp Walk” FAZ , May 19, 2011
- ↑ Jörg Häntzschel: Handcuffs adorn every suspicion Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 18, 2011
- ↑ cf. Palma Paciocco: Pilloried in the Press: Rethinking the Constitutional Status of the American Perp Walk . New Criminal Law Review 2013, pp. 50-103
- ↑ Caroline Davidson: State Constitutions and the Humane Treatment of Arrestees and Pretrial Detainees Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 2014, pp. 1-73