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NYCLU Finds 2012 Stop-And-Frisks Led To More Marijuana Arrests Than Gun Arrests

Posted on May 22, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Last year, 532,911 people were stopped by NYPD officers as a part of the stop-and-frisk program. The New York Civil Liberties Union says the largest amount of arrests were for marijuana possession. Continue reading →

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App Alerts Potential Witnesses to Police Stop & Frisk

Posted on February 13, 2013 by | Leave a comment

stopfriskwatchThe American Civil Liberties Union has already provided a way for citizens to discretely capture their interactions with law enforcers with its Police Tape app. Continue reading →

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NYPD Recruits Receive Stop-and-Frisk Training

Posted on October 20, 2012 by | Leave a comment

NYPD recruits receive heavy training on conducting stop-and-frisks on the street and in apartment buildings — and are possibly even overtrained — testified the former head of the Police Academy Friday. Continue reading →

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Harlem’s Forced Marriage of Charter & Public Schools is not Jeffersonian

Posted on July 16, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The NY Daily News reports that a walk through Public School 241 and you’ll find contrasting spaces; one bathroom is gray and dingy, with urinals that overflow. Continue reading →

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Harlem Protest Against stop-and-frisks (updated)

Posted on June 17, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Harlem World Magazine asked our interns about “stop-and-frisk” in Harlem, who said “…in May (2012) I was stopped-and-frisked 45 times by the NYPD in Harlem”:

Prominent civil rights leaders joined protesters at a Harlem rally Saturday to voice objections to a police practice that has led to hundreds of thousands of innocent people being stopped and searched by officers. Continue reading →

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Coalition says unfair, ineffective NYPD stop-and-frisk policy has to change

Posted on February 29, 2012 by | Leave a comment

As the choir of Bethany Baptist Church in Harlem sang to a packed crowd of Sunday morning worshipers, the Rev. Kris Erskine waited in the narrow church vestibule to greet his invited speaker, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Continue reading →

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“Stand for Freedom” To Hold Multilingual, Community Press Briefing On Voting And March

Posted on November 26, 2011 by | Leave a comment

A coalition of civil rights, labor and community groups fighting to protect the voting rights of all Americans will speak in Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, Creole, English and Spanish … Continue reading →

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Harlem Case As Example In Police Shootings Record Lows

Posted on November 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Last year, 52 officers from the New York Police Department fired a total of 236 bullets during confrontations with suspects. About half of the officers used a two-handed grip on their firearm, as the department encourages, while the others shot one-handed. And in a sign of just how tense these 33 separate shooting episodes were, and how rapidly they unfolded, only one officer reported using the gun’s sight before firing. Continue reading →

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