New York City Stop and Frisk Police Harassment Found UnconstitutionalThomas Riggins
"Stop and Frisk" Under Floyd v. City of New York: The Difficulty of Proving a Fourteenth Amendment Violation George Mason University Civil Rights Law JournalClark, David
Notably, blacks and Hispanics make up more than 80% of individu- als stopped, even though they constitute approximately 50% of the New York City population. By and large, nearly all academic research on stop-and-frisk and related tactics has focused on claims of racial discrimination. However...
[334] Crime overall has trended downward in New York City since the 1990s;[335] violent crime decreased more than 75% from 1993 to 2005, and continued decreasing during periods when the nation as a whole saw increases.[336] The NYPD's stop-and-frisk program was declared unconstitutional ...
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kellysaid Mondaythat the New York Police Department did not engage in racial profiling during its controversial stop-and-frisk program. But federal judge Shira Sheindlin ruled that stop and frisk "encouraged the targeting of young black and Hispanic me...
Under a 1977 New York State law, low-level marijuana possession is a non-arrestable offense unless it's in public view or burning. But critics say many of the arrests are the result of New York's "stop and frisk" policy, during which police will make people empty their pockets and the...
Lawyers Target The New York City Stop-And-FriskJoel Rose
Williams was referring to NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” policy, which critics see as both racist and ineffective. In 4.4 million stop-and-frisk encounters, more than 86% of people stopped were black or Latino,according to analysisby the New York Civil Liberties Union based on NYPD data. And ...
Queens City Council member Peter Vallone Jr. has been a defender of the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactic and is no fan of federally imposed oversight. "The NYPD does not need an additional monitor, it already has 10. Cities like Chicago and Detroit, they need monitors, not the most ...
Judge rejects New York’s stop-and-frisk policy. New York Times. 13 August 2013, 2013;N.Y./Region: A1.Goldstein, J. 2013. "Judge Rejects New York's Stop-and-Frisk Policy," in The New York Times. New York.Goldstein J. Judge rejects New York's stop-and-frisk policy. New York ...