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• New York City’s ‘Stop and Frisk’ Racial Profiling Case at Final Arguments

  
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  Kimani Gray, 16, New York ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Shooting VictimChocolate City is following the final arguments of the class action lawsuit taking place in Manhattan, NY. The two months racial profiling trial is set to conclude today. The federal class action trial involves the City of New York’s stop-and-frisk ...
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• Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera

  
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  . . The stop-and-frisk trials of Pedro Serrano: NYPD rat, NYPD hero Officer Pedro Serrano walked through the heavy wooden doors of the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx and headed upstairs to the locker room. For eight years he’d been working out of this 89-year-old station house, with its broken fax machines ...
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• Stop-and-Frisk Trial Draws to a Close

  
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  After nine weeks of testimony from about a dozen men who believe they’ve been wrongly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, the federal civil rights trial of the police department practice will come to a close . After each side gives a summation of its case today, judge Shira Scheindlin will review the trial record, ...
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• Decrease in Violent Crime Coincides With Reduced Stop-and-Frisks, Again

  
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  Great news! NYC has seen a decrease in violent crime during the first quarter of the year, with shootings and murders dropping by 24% and 40%, respectively. Incidentally, the number of Stop-and-Frisks carried out by the NYPD has also gone down significantly during this time period. “From January 1 through March ...
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• The AM Roundup: The Grinding Wheels of Smartphone Justice

  
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  Law Blog rounds up the mornings news.
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• Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Danger of the Black Cultural Tour Guide

  
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  ta-nehisi-coates.jpg by Pascal Robert How does one become rated “the best writer on race today?” By telling white people what they want to hear. Ta-Nehisi Coates is “the new favorite Black cultural tour guide of the chattering class” because he “talks about ...
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• PSL: NYPD ‘stop and frisk’ campaign targets LGBTQ residents

  
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  By Stewart Stout in the PSL’s Liberation News : The New York Police Department’s racist terror campaign, known as “Stop and Frisk,” continues to plague working-class communities in the five boroughs. A recent article in The New York Times, titled “Arrests by the Fashion Police,” highlights the NYPD’s ...
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• Voices: Bloomberg, Stop And Frisk, And Consequences For NYC

  
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  Photo via The Atlantic The closer we come to the end of Mayor Bloomberg’s term, the clearer it becomes that he’s more than comfortable with leaving a slew of issues for his successor to deal with. Bloomberg remains unwavering in his support of Stop and Frisk, even accusing the media outlets reporting on its ...
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• NYPD Cop: We Have Quotas Because Were Lazy

  
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  Youtube "Stop and frisks" are a controversial NYPD tactic thats come under fire many times as unconstitutional. Well, now two whistleblowers are saying there IS a quota-like system thats causing these arrests.  Subscribe to  Young Turks Channel Enter your email address to subscribe to our ...
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• NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial

  
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  NEW YORK (AP) - After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker. That was the least of his problems. Serrano claims hes been harassed, micromanaged and eventually transferred to a different ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mayors Race: John Liu and Bill Thompson Argue over Stop and Frisk

  
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  Interesting exchange between John Liu and Bill Thompson over stop and frisk: Some background on stop and frisk can be found at the NYCLU website . An excerpt: he NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights. The Department’s own reports on its ...
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• John King: Irresponsibility To The Max

  
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  “ Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” Those were the words of CNN’s John King, who took to Twitter last Thursday to sort of explain his now infamous “dark-skinned male” comment during the network’s wall to ...
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• New Yorkers’ Life Expectancy Up Because of Stop-and-Frisk?

  
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  New Yorkers’ Life Expectancy Up Because of Stop-and-Frisk? :
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