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If a federal court determines that the NYPD systematically violated the civil rights of residents through its stop-and-frisk behavior — which the court probably will — the Department of Justice may provide a monitor for oversight. Bloomberg is mad about it, to which there is only one reasonable response: Get over it.
Michael Bloomberg revealed in a radio interview Friday that his understanding of how marijuana works could be considered as baffling as his administration's approach to marijuana-related crimes. Except that his weird justifications might explain the bad policies.
At some point over the next few weeks, the NYPD is likely to lose a civil trial criticizing it for repeatedly and on a massive scale violating the civil rights of city residents. The cops will probably blame the judge, mostly because it can't blame the numbers.
Leaders of the New York Police Department offered an innovative-if-self-deprecating rationale for its practice of stop-and-frisks: ten percent of its officers are lazy and need incentives to get them out of their cars.
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In some happy news for a healthy percentage of New Yorkers, the state appears to be close to decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana in New York City. This isn't an effort to curtail crime — it's an (overdue) effort to rein in the NYPD and stop-and-frisk. The data shows why.
Despite all the controversy surrounding NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk, just under half of New Yorkers think the tactic is “acceptable to make New York City safer,” a new poll from The New York Times finds, but they are matched by another 45 percent who think it's "excessive."
Street stops by the New York Police Department are about as effective for women as for men—that is, they turn up very few guns—but as The New York Times illustrates in a Tuesday report, they often feel a lot more intrusive.
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Amid recent noise about New York City's controversial "stop and frisk" policy, Reuters had done a deep dive into five years of worth of police data to see where (and to whom) the vast majority of searches take place.
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be amended in a speech on Sunday.
After a harsh rebuke from a federal judge who green-lit a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department over its stop-and-frisk tactics, police commissioner Ray Kelly said the program was being reevaluated, with more internal oversight and training.
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that a lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department can become a class action suit, possibly creating a class of potential victims in hundreds of thousands.
Nicholas K. Peart is a 23-year-old black man living in New York City. He's been stopped and frisked by police at least five times. His account of the corrosive legacy of an invasive police tactic is going viral.
It's been a busy week for Princeton's Cornel West, who was arrested in D.C. on Sunday, and was just arrested again in New York this afternoon.
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