New York Civil Liberties Union

Hipsters Get Stopped-And-Frisked Too

Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Williamsburg Brooklyn, Stop and Frisks, Nypd Stop and Frisks, Hipsters, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, Ny News, New York News

The New York Civil Liberties Union recently compiled the top 10 neighborhoods for NYPD stop-and-frisks. Unsurprisingly, the stops occurred more freque...

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New York City and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Alan Singer | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Latinos, Public Schools, Metal Detectors, Rudy Giuliani, Lourdes LaGuardia High School, Performing Arts, School to Prison, Students, New York City, New York Civil Liberties Union, African Americans, New York Public Schools, Criminal Justice System, School Safety, New York News

Metal detectors at school entrances make many New York City schools feel more like prisons than places where young people want to be and contribute to the sense that these are not a place where people are respected.

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NYPD Testing Long-Distance Gun Detection Device

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Nypd, Department of Defense, Ray Kelly, Nypd Gun Detection, Firearms, Nyclu, Gun Detection, Nypd Stop and Frisk, Stop and Frisk, New York City, New York, New York Civil Liberties Union, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Crime News

The New York Police Department, with assistance from the Pentagon, is testing a scanning device that can remotely detect concealed firearms, Police Co...

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Who's the Real Chicken?

Len Levitt | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Adrian Schoolcraft, Transparency, 81st Precinct, Nypd, Anthony Baez, Ray Kelly, Michael Bloomberg, Joel Klein, Rupert Murdoch, Nypd Transparency, Teacher's Union, Frank Livoti, Nypd Corruption, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York News

Rupert Murdoch may have called Gov. Cuomo "chicken" for refusing to take on the city's teacher's union. But judging from his latest State of the City address, Mayor Bloomberg sounds like the real chicken for refusing to take on Ray Kelly.

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4 Million New Yorkers Have Been Stopped-And-Frisked

Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Nypd, Ny News, Nyclu, Nypd Scandals, Nypd Stop and Frisk, Nypd Paul Browne, Stop and Frisk, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, Scott Stringer, New York News

2011's seen a 13 percent increase in New Yorkers getting patted down by cops. As of September the NYPD has stop-and-frisked 514,000 people. And accor...

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94 Percent Of Arrested Students Are Black Or Latino

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Dennis Walcott, Nypd, Ny News, New York News, New York City Student Arrests, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Education, New York News

An average of 1 New York City student is arrested by the NYPD every day, according to a new report. And of those arrested, 88 percent are male and 94 ...

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Journalists Protest Occupy Wall Street Police Handling

AP | By DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Occupy Wall Street Journalists, Paul Browne, Wall Street Protest, Ray Kelly, Ny News, New York Press Club, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street, Nypd Scandals, Associated Press, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, New Ylrk Times, New York News

NEW YORK -- Media organizations sent letters on Monday to city officials complaining about the police handling of journalists covering the Occupy Wall...

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The NYPD's Post-9/11 Tradeoff: Security Vs. Civil Liberties

AP | By DAVID CRARY | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: September 11, Nypd Cia, American Civil Liberties Union, Nypd, Ny News, Nypd Muslim, 9/11, Fbi, Nypd Demographics Unit, Nypd Spying, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York News

NEW YORK -- In the early months after the 9/11 terror attacks, America's visceral reaction was to gird for a relentless, whatever-it-takes quest to pu...

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NY Border Control Raided Buses, Trains

AP | By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Nyu Immigration Rights Clinic, US-Canada-Border-Entry-Requirements, New York Border Control, Rochester, Buffalo, Ny News, New York Immigration, New York News, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Immigrant rights advocates and the New York Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday accused the Border Patrol in upstate New York of abusi...

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Discourse on Intercourse: An Opportunity to Teach Sex Education the Right Way

Lily Gellman | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, New York Civil Liberties Union, Sex Education, High School News

Imagine a scale from one to 10. One marks abstinence-only-until-heterosexual-marriage education, while 10 represents safer sex-positive, LGBTQ-inclusive education. My high school's curriculum up until this year falls somewhere in the scale's middle, but tips precariously toward its lower end.

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No Rise Out of Stop and Frisk

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Sampson, Paul Browne, Rudy Giuliani, Ray Kelly, David Paterson, Michael Bloomberg, Nypd, Brownsville, New York Civil Liberties Union, Nypd Scandals, New York News

Is police commissioner Ray Kelly being pro-active or provocative after his stop-and-frisk databank was legislated out of existence?

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No Longer God

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intelligence Division, Ray Kelly, Michael Bloomberg, Murray-Weiss, New York Times, Heather-Mac-Donald, Stop and Frisk, Brownsville, Judith Miller, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York News

Governor David Paterson's decision to scrap Ray Kelly's databank of people not arrested in police stop-and-frisks is the latter's first public smack-down in eight years as police commissioner.

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Antonio Musumeci, NYCLU Sue Government Over Federal Photo Ban

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography Restriction Unconstitutional, Photography Law, Antonio Musumeci, New York Civil Liberties Union, Nyclu, New York City, New York, New York News

NEW YORK — A civil rights group accused the U.S. government of harassing law-abiding photographers outside a courthouse, saying in a lawsuit Thu...

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Branding "Intel"

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Street Crime Unit, Rudy Giuliani, NYPD Intelligence Division, Ray Kelly, Amadou Diallo, Chris Strom, Trademarks, Nypd, Stop and Frisk, New York Civil Liberties Union, Eliot Spitzer, Trademark Infringement, Intel, New York News

After retiring from the NYPD and 15 months in Iraq, "conducting human intelligence," Sgt. Chris Strom settled down in Virginia and opened Intel Investigations. Then he heard from Intel's lawyer.

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The Lieutenant's Death That Will Not Die

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Browne, Nypd, Michael Pigott, Ray Kelly, NYPD Emergency Service, Mayor Bloomberg, Bill Bratton, Phil Pulaski, Norman Siegel, Taser, Susan Pigott, Patrolmen?S Benevolent Association, New York Civil Liberties Union, Michael Bloomberg, Iman Morales, New York News

The widow of an Emergency Service lieutenant who killed himself a year ago is blaming the tragedy on Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, his spokesman and other unnamed top brass.

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Death by Neglect

Jay Neugeboren | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Overmedication, Mental Health, Kings County Hospital Center, New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Flophouses, Health, Esmin Green, Psychiatric Drugs, Hospitals, New York City and State Mental Health Systems, Parkinsonism, Healthy Living News

My brother Robert has been a patient in the NYC mental health systems for the past 46 years, and though outraged by Esmin Green's death, I'm not surprised -- people with mental illness remain the stepchildren of the medical system.

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