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Alarmed voters demanded action. Elected officials responded. One of those responses was stop-and-frisk policing. Crime declines followed, and voters applauded. Time has not been kind to the ...
Yesterday Ray Kelly took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to defend NYPD's Stop and Frisk tactics and its indiscriminate spying on Muslim communities: Since 2002, the New York Police ...
Stop-and-frisk abuses were higher among the anti-crime ... traded the pencil for his box and headed toward the next car with his unfinished sketch. The artist grinned and pulled a fresh book ...
Responding to a POLITICO New York report that cast doubt on his claim that he reduced the New York Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk from its peak in 2011 — two years before he took ...
Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg consistently credited his administration’s controversial stop-and-frisk program as essential to cutting crime, but declines in felonies both before and ...
Thus, it should come as no surprise that Comedy Central's Key & Peele imagined a world without racism in a musical short that describes a utopia that gets rid of issues like stop-and-frisk ...
The New Republic has circled back to one of the hottest debates in 2013 politics (thanks to New York City having a somewhat interesting mayoral election): the effectiveness of stop-and-frisk as a ...
In the summer of 2013, as he sought to cement his legacy as a three-term mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg faced a pair of threats to his signature — and highly divisive — crime-fighting ...
NEW YORK -- The NYPD is essentially letting officers off the hook for using the banned practice of stop-and-frisk, according to a lengthy report that alleges the department is unwilling to police ...
Courtroom sketch of Judge Shira Scheindlin. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams) A decision is imminent in New York’s historic stop-and-frisk case, tried for two months in a Manhattan federal courtroom.
A short documentary film on New York’s stop-and-frisk policing focuses on Tyquan Brehon, a young man in Brooklyn who says he was stopped more than 60 times before age 18. Advertisement A ...