NYC mayor clashes with 'stop-and-frisk' judge
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...
CNN slammed for calling bombing suspect a 'dark-skinned male'
theGRIO REPORT - This controversial description of an alleged suspect is receiving backlash from the African-American community...
Wrongly convicted man gives back to police
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...
Study: Half of people shot by cops mentally ill
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...
San Francisco mayor ends stop-frisk consideration
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....
NYPD planning changes to stop-and-frisk policy
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...
Supreme Court strip search ruling hardest on blacks
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..
Black Sanford residents: A history of distrusting cops
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...
Supreme Court upholds jails' strip searches
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...
Cops must drop excuses for Trayvon shooter
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...
