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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 ...
For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and brown men who experienced it physically and mentally scarred and ...
“In Chicago, they’ve had thousands of shootings. … Stop and frisk worked very well … it brought the crime way down [in New York City].” –Donald Trump THE FACT CHECKER | Trump cherry ...
For years, lawyers and advocates fought the use of “stop and frisk,” a policing tactic that left a majority of Black and brown men who experienced it physically and mentally scarred and ...
This story is from Stop and Frisk, a podcast production from WHYY News and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting Though only 40% of city residents are Black, the bloodshed ...
The Police Department’s controversial use of the stop, question and frisk procedure has generated a tremendous amount of debate, with some accusing the NYPD of targeting young men of color and ...
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 ...
In an update to his criminal justice campaign platform on his website, the convicted felon called for the return of the controversial practice of “stop-and-frisk” by the New York City Police ...
A decade has passed since the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) contentious stop-and-frisk policy was deemed unconstitutional. While it once symbolized New York policing during Mayor Rudy ...
This story is from “Stop and Frisk,” a podcast production from WHYY News and Temple University’s Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get ...
Chicago police stop and frisk a man near the scene of a shooting on Oct. 6, 2015. That year, Chicago police were stopping four times as many people per capita as New York City’s police.