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NYC mayor clashes with 'stop-and-frisk' judge

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - As New York City’s landmark trial on stop-and-frisks nears a decision, the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg sparks a new debate...
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CNN slammed for calling bombing suspect a 'dark-skinned male'

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - This controversial description of an alleged suspect is receiving backlash from the African-American community...
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Wrongly convicted man gives back to police

Cheryl Hurd, NBC Bay Area
BAY AREA - Almost three years after being exonerated for a crime thanks to DNA evidence, Terrill Swift was invited to come to Hayward to be the keynote speaker for a law enforcement community summit...
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Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday,Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Study: Half of people shot by cops mentally ill

David A. Love
theGRIO REPORT - A new study in a Maine newspaper sheds light on a national problem of police and the fatal shooting of the mentally ill...
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People rally outside of city hall in opposition to a proposed stop-and-frisk policy in San Francisco, Tuesday, July 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

San Francisco mayor ends stop-frisk consideration

Fenit Nirappil, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor Ed Lee said Tuesday he was no longer considering a tactic that would allow police to stop and frisk suspicious people in an effort to get weapons off San Francisco streets....
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NYPD planning changes to stop-and-frisk policy

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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Thursday announced changes to officer training and supervision amid a growing public outcry and a federal lawsuit claiming a stop, question and frisk policy...
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Supreme Court strip search ruling hardest on blacks

David A. Love
theGRIO REPORT - The prevalence of racial profiling, despite its prohibition by federal law, suggests that innocent black men in particular are susceptible to disproportionate arrests and strip searches..
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Black Sanford residents: A history of distrusting cops

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - When Sanford's black residents talk about the 'good old boy' network, they often mean the Sanford police department, which for many, embodies the worst aspects of the old south...
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Supreme Court upholds jails' strip searches

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches, siding with security needs over privacy rights...
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Cops must drop excuses for Trayvon shooter

James H. Burnett III
OPINION - If better relations are really what Chief Bill Lee wants, the first thing he can do is avoid the appearance of impropriety by ceasing to refer to Zimmerman in terms and phrases typically reserved for defense attorneys...
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