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Kelly Says Stop And Frisk Critics Have 'Short Memories And Questionable Motives'

Posted 05.21.2012

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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 ...

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Shocking New NYPD Stop And Frisk Data Reveals Racial Disparities

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 05.10.2012

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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...

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Attorney General Looking Into NYPD Stop And Frisks

Posted 04.11.2012

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In keeping with a 2010 campaign promise, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is reviewing the controversial practice of NYPD stop-and-fr...

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Matt Taibbi: In Bloomberg's New York, The NYPD Can Search You In Your Hallways

Posted 04.04.2012

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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...

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DNA Testing Expanded To Fare-Jumpers, Shoplifters

Posted 03.20.2012

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New York became the first "all crimes DNA" state in the nation Monday after Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill requiring anyone convicted of...

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90 Percent Of Arrested Students Are Black Or Latino

Posted 02.23.2012

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An average of 5 students were arrested each day in New York City schools during the last three months of 2011, new NYPD data reveals. And of those stu...

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NYPD Stop-And-Frisks At Record Rates

Posted 02.16.2012

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The NYPD has broken their record for stop-and-frisks in a single year...again. New York's finest stopped and interrogated people 684,330 times in 2011...

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Eight Years Too Late

Len Levitt | Posted 03.24.2012

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Len Levitt

Ray Kelly's "policing 101 refresher" memo underscores the giant hole in the supposed NYPD successes in lowering crime over the past decade. It indicates that for the past eight years Kelly has refused to tackle a widespread problem.

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John Rudolf

NYPD Testing Long-Distance Gun Detection Device

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.18.2012

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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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NYPD Accused Of Having 'Secret List' Barring Blacks From Promotion

Posted 01.18.2012

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The NYCLU has filed a federal complaint accusing the NYPD of having a "secret list" barring black officers from being promoted within the department's...

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Civil Liberties Say Barricades At Zuccotti Park Are Illegal

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 03.10.2012

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NEW YORK — Barricades surrounding a New York City park that was the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement are a violation of city zoning ...

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Do NYPD Cops Have To Live In NYC?

Posted 12.13.2011

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A local lawmaker is pushing a bill that would require NYPD officers to live primarily within the five boroughs in an attempt to curb racist misconduct...

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WATCH: Activist Taunts Ray Kelly For Stop And Frisks And Protecting 'White Heterosexual Males'

Posted 12.01.2011

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This week Police Commissioner Ray Kelly received two blunt reminders from students and protestors that he isn't exactly a favorite in the eyes of civi...

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4 Million New Yorkers Have Been Stopped-And-Frisked

Posted 11.30.2011

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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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NYPD Intel Unit Caused Muslim Businesses To Close

AP | By CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 01.08.2012

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NEW YORK -- Even before it showed up in a secret police report, everybody in Bay Ridge knew that Mousa Ahmad's cafe was being watched. Strangers loit...

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Matt Sledge

Occupy Wall Street Erects A Tent City In Zuccotti Park, With Little Reaction From NYPD

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.26.2011

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NEW YORK -- A little more than a month ago, when the occupation of Zuccotti Park was in its early days, the New York City Police Department was not in...

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Lawsuit: Where In New York Is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly?

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 12.18.2011

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Perhaps because the NYPD is bigger than the FBI and has anti-aircraft capabilities, The New York Civil Liberties Union believes New Yorkers should at ...

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Matt Sledge

NYPD's Cooperation With CIA Lacks Effective Oversight, Civil Liberties Groups Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 10.31.2011

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Last week the Associated Press came out with an explosive -- or "underwhelming," depending on your point of view -- article about the NYPD's collabora...

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WATCH: Local Videographer 'Harassed' By Cops For Filming Armed Soldier

Posted 07.27.2011

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Joey Boots, a Howard Stern regular and local videographer with an extensive YouTube channel, had a run-in with some nasty cops at Penn Station this we...

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Weekly Pulse: The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean, and Smoking Hipsters

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As some Americans obsess over whether to brine or deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkeys, others are goi...

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The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Len Levitt

What's with the editorial page of the Daily News when it comes to the police department? A real newspaper challenges authority and encourages its reporters to take the story wherever it leads.

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Antonio Musumeci, NYCLU Sue Government Over Federal Photo Ban

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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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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Kelly and Cohen: The End of the Line

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katherine Ann Lemire, 2004 Republican National Convention, NYPD Intelligence Division, Nypd, Bernard Kerik, Ray Kelly, Nyclu, Najibullah Zazi, David Cohen, New York News
Len Levitt

For yet a third time, a federal judge has ordered the NYPD to release 2,000 pages of secret documents, showing how it spied on legal protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

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The Growing Problem of Over-Policing Our Schools

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Marian Wright Edelman

The over-policing of public schools -- is one more threat to our nation's children at risk of entering the pipeline to prison.

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