Not okay! A man in Philadelphia and his friend were stopped by the police while walking down a block, where they were pushed up against the police car and searched. The video shows a man filming his friend being put up against the cop car, when the police man tells the guy with the camera […]
The New York City Council overturned Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto on a measure to curb the stop-and-frisk policy that Bloomberg argues is necessary to bring crime rates down. The council passed another measure, which was also opposed by the mayor, that would create a watchdog force to monitor the New York Police Department. The two bills […]
What kind of city is the mayor leaving to his successor? That’s the question posed by The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta during his recent, very comprehensive interview with NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg. Going into detail about Bloomberg’s past three terms [which will come to an end December 31] – what he has accomplished, what kind of […]
The attorney for Trayvon Martin‘s family has spoken out about the stop-and-frisk programs in NYC which have been argued to be considered “racial profiling”. Benjamin Crump recently went on NBC’s Meet The Press where he discussed the program that involves cops being allowed to stop and search those they feel are threatening. He said on the […]
Earlier this week, after years of objection to the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk practice, a federal judge has found that constitutional rights of thousands of New Yorkers were violated. However now New York City officials have taken the first step in appealing a federal judge’s ruling. The city’s Law Department filed a notice of appeal Friday in U.S. District […]
Is this guy serious? On the heels of the Stop-and-Frisk ruling that deemed it unconstitutional, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is making yet another attempt to perpetuate the pervasive racial profiling in NYC. On Friday during an appearance on The John Gambling Show, the mayor said the best way to improve public housing safety was to fingerprint the […]
Guess it doesn’t really matter who you are…especially if you’re a black man. Our favorite drummer and Grammy-winning musician, Questlove, recently revealed to Democracy Now that he has been racially profiled or stop-and-frisked between 20 and 30 times. He recalled his first encounter with the police back in 1982 when he and a friend were […]
Apparently being friendly can get you locked up. George Madison Jr., an off-duty firefighter and pastor who also happens to be black, was riding his bike when he saw a police car approaching the same intersection. Believing he recognized one of the officers from his work with the local fire department, Madison waved at the vehicle. […]
Since a federal judge deemed the controversial NYPD Stop-and-Frisk practice unconstitutional, those who have been targeted are rejoicing, but others who advocate for it aren’t too happy. Which is ridiculous, being that the judge didn’t say the NYPD had to stop the 11-year-old program. She did, however, suggest they do it differently to avoid the […]
I’m pro-profile and anti-assumption. In the tradition of people watching, general profiling of appearance can be fairly accurate on average depending on attire and setting. As a microcosm, think of lunch table cliques in high school (goths, jocks, etc). The macro, however, is too multi-dimensional for the naked eye because one can profile based on […]
A federal judge has found that constitutional rights of thousands of New Yorkers were violated...
According to a settlement issued Wednesday, The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has agreed to clear its database of all criminal wrongdoings under the very controversial stop-and frisk practice. In a move to settle the state lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2010, the NYPD has agreed to erase the database within […]
