In a leaked audio clip from 2015, the Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor, can be heard fiercely advocating for the racist policy.
(Wall Street Journal) — The number of times New York City police officers stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked people dropped slightly in the third quarter from a year earlier, but was up slightly in the first nine months compared with a year earlier. Police filled out 137,301 “Stop, Question and Frisk” reports, known as 250s, […]
(New York Times) — Tens of thousands of times over six years, the police stopped and questioned people on New York City streets without the legal justification for doing so, a new study says. And in hundreds of thousands of more cases, city officers failed to include essential details on required police forms to show whether […]
(NYT) — A City Council hearing on the New York Police Department’s use of its controversial “stop, question and frisk” policy in public housing became a one-sided affair on Tuesday, after police and housing officials declined to testify. Officials with both agencies cited pending federal litigation surrounding the policy in deciding not to appear. The officials said […]
(Amsterdam News) — An article published in The Village Voice concerning operations by the NYPD in Brooklyn has many outraged, but also confirms speculation regarding how police handle communities of color. Earlier this month, the Voice obtained hours of tape recordings from NYPD Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct. The officer secretly recorded his […]
(Washington Post) — The New York Civil Liberties Union says a database with the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of people stopped, questioned and frisked by police is illegal. The NYCLU says state law requires records relating to a summons or an arrest be sealed unless the person is convicted or pleads guilty […]