NYPD Stop and Frisk

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March 19, 2024

With police stops back up in New York City, more people of color are targeted

Black and Latino New Yorkers made up 88% of all police stops in 2022, according to a new report by…
Keechant Sewell resigns
December 17, 2021

Can the new police commissioner bring real change to the NYPD?

On Wednesday, NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams announced his historic appointment of Keechant Sewell as the first woman to lead the…
December 30, 2014

If the NYPD treats the mayor this bad in public, imagine what they do to black men when no one is looking

Let’s talk about the police, specifically the NYPD. New York’s finest have not been acting so fine in recent days,
February 12, 2014

Brooklyn D.A.’s weed decriminalization plan is a game changer

OPINION - The borough of Brooklyn, New York has a new chief prosecutor, and if he has his way, there…
November 29, 2013

Will the specter of 'shopping while black' haunt Black Friday?

OPINION - This holiday season, will African-Americans keep the black out of Black Friday?...
September 16, 2013

iPhone fingerprint technology: Should blacks be wary?

OPINION - Conspiracy theorists are having a field day with the new iPhone technology, calling it Big Brother’s dream come…
June 13, 2013

History of black surveillance influences African-American attitudes on spying

ANALYSIS - The black community has decades of experience being monitored, so this type of surveillance is nothing new...
October 23, 2012

On facing two years in jail for protesting stop-and-frisk

OPINION - In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window onto the daily plight of thousands, the very…
October 16, 2012

NY stop-and-frisk debate gains political spotlight

NEW YORK (AP) — After more than a decade of complaints, the New York Police Department's practice of stopping and…