Defending Stop-And-Frisk, Bloomberg Slams Philadelphia's Crime Rate
Mayor Bloomberg does not have kind words for the City of Brotherly Love. Responding to a New York Times editorial suggesting the NYPD fix stop-and-...
Mayor Bloomberg does not have kind words for the City of Brotherly Love. Responding to a New York Times editorial suggesting the NYPD fix stop-and-...
Mari Fagel | Posted 05.24.2012
Just after the New York Police Department released crime data touting the positive effects of stop and frisk, a judge cleared the way for thousands of New Yorkers who feel they've been victimized by the policy to join a class action lawsuit.
HuffingtonPost.com | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.24.2012
City Councilman Jumaane Williams thinks Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is "ass-backwards" in its approach to gun violence, and that the mayo...
Posted 05.21.2012
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly lashed out at critics of stop and frisk in a Daily News editorial Monday, defending the program from the claim ...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.18.2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Thursday announced changes to officer training and supervision amid a growing public outcry and ...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 05.16.2012
Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial stop-and-frisk program scored a major victory in court Wednesday, after a federal judge gr...
The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.17.2012
After a US District judge condemned the NYPD's use of stop and frisk Wednesday--granting a major lawsuit class action status-- Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
Tom Allon | Posted 05.16.2012
Stop and frisk must continue as a tool for the NYPD. It's time we had an honest appraisal: stop and frisk is saving minority men's lives. But jobs and education is a better way to save them. That work must begin now.
Scott M. Stringer | Posted 05.16.2012
New York's dramatic reduction in crime is one of the defining achievements of the last 20 years, a success that underpins so much of our city. But we need to work to build bridges of trust and respect into every neighborhood.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.17.2012
NEW YORK — Finding the city's attitude "deeply troubling," a judge granted class action status Wednesday to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the New York...
The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.15.2012
Earlier this week, the NYCLU released a report on NYPD stop and frisks. The report prompted Public Advocate (and likely mayoral candidate) Bill de Bla...
Posted 05.14.2012
A black Staten Island man is suing a white NYPD officer for falsely accusing him of resisting arrest. From The New York Daily News: [Kendrick] G...
AP | Posted 05.13.2012
NEW YORK — The latest numbers show the New York Police Department's skyrocketing street stops increased to more than 200,000 stops during the fi...
The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.10.2012
A report [see below] from the New York Civil Liberties Union reveals in startling new details just how disproportionately the NYPD stops and frisks mi...
Posted 04.11.2012
In keeping with a 2010 campaign promise, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reviewing the controversial practice of NYPD stop-and-fr...
Posted 04.04.2012
An amazing lawsuit was filed in New York last week. It seems Mike Bloomberg's notorious "stop-and-frisk" policy - known colloquially in these parts by...
Dan Cantor | Posted 04.02.2012
We ask the police to deal with problems the rest of us want to ignore. We stop-and-frisk because we aren't able to educate-and-employ.
Chris Bilal | Posted 05.29.2012
New York needs real CPR -- Communities United for Police Reform, that is. CPR is an unprecedented campaign to end discriminatory policing practices, bringing together a movement of community members from all walks of life and all five boroughs.
Dan Collins | Posted 05.29.2012
The shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida has ricocheted back to New York. Minority lawmakers are up in arms about the city police practice of stopping and frisking young black and Hispanic men.
Posted 03.23.2012
The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed Bronx 18-year-old shot and killed by an NYPD officer in February, says they will hold rallies and marches e...
Brad Lander | Posted 05.15.2012
The truth matters. That's why I am working with my colleague Jumaane Williams, the Brennan Center for Justice, and other groups on legislation to establish an NYPD Inspector General.
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke | Posted 05.14.2012
The New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Stop, Question-and-Frisk Program, known as "Stop-and-Frisk," must end. The safety of our communities cannot be purchased at the price of the civil liberties of the law abiding citizenry of New York City (NYC).
The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 03.14.2012
New Yorkers are divided on the issue of NYPD stop-and-frisks. An effective tool in curbing crime and keeping guns off the streets? Or an invasion of c...
Peter F. Vallone Jr. | Posted 05.13.2012
I've been asked to explain why the NYPD vigorously pursues a potentially dangerous and controversial "stop, question and frisk" policy in New York City -- the safest large city in America. The answer is simple -- because it works.
Jumaane D. Williams | Posted 05.13.2012
Stop and frisk is an acceptable policing tool. That is not the question at hand. The question is whether the NYPD's current usage of stop and frisk is effective, legal and/or necessary.
Posted 05.25.2012