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Beyond the Numbers: A Debate Over the Effects of NYPD Stop and Frisk

Mari Fagel | Posted 05.24.2012

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Mari Fagel

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.

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NYC Needs CPR

Chris Bilal | Posted 05.29.2012

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Chris Bilal

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.

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24 Hours in the Clink

Chris Norwood | Posted 01.30.2012

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Chris Norwood

I would like to draw attention to a little remarked result of the Bloomberg administration's mass criminalization of minority neighborhoods -- the shocking and obsessive brutalization of black women in New York City.

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Gov. Paterson Ends Database on Innocent NYers, But Stop-and-Frisks and Low-Level Marijuana Arrests Still Need to Be Drastically Reduced

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ethan Nadelmann

David Paterson has signed legislation to limit the NYPD practice of storing personal information on innocent New Yorkers who are stopped-and-frisked but not charged with any crime.

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Stop And Frisk Database Contains 575,000 Names, Is Illegal: NYCLU

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The New York Civil Liberties Union says a database with the names and addresses of hundreds of thousands of people stopped, questione...

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