According to a NYCLU analysis, stop-and-frisk reports by the NYPD are way down in New York City, but they continue to disproportionately affect Black and Latino men, El Diario La Prensa reports.
A report by the Police Reform Organizing Project denounces ongoing abusive and discriminatory practices by the NYPD, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Community-NYPD forums to explore stop-and-frisk and other police activities in various communities are being held by the court-mandated NYC Joint Remedial Process (JRP). Ditmas Park Corner and Times Ledger reported on two recent meetings.
The city is holding a series of community forums where the community affected by the policing tactic will be able to voice their opinions, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Repudiating racially motivated policies, reducing marijuana stops, eliminating humiliating stops of transgender individuals and working toward an overall reduction in incarceration rates should be the four key steps taken by the new police commissioner.
The ruling of stop-and-frisk ignited plenty of reactions, no less in the pages of the community media.
The mayoral hopeful pushes his ideas on revamping education, policing and affordable housing despite dismal poll numbers.
The candidates had many disagreements during the exchange sponsored by the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.
One could argue she doesn’t have a choice, but still, mayoral candidate Christine Quinn embraces her record, all of it – the good, the unpopular, the controversial – with surprising gusto.
Latino City Council members seeking re-election could be among those targeted by Mayor Bloomberg for voting in favor of the Community Safety Act which curbs the practice of stop-and-frisk, reports El Diario-La Prensa. The mayor is planning to use his money to fight against the re-election campaigns of the act’s supporters.
Mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrión said he is running as an independent because the Democratic and Republican parties are out of touch. Describing himself as a social progressive and fiscal conservative, he said he supports expanding charter schools, opposes stop-and-frisk and said UFT leaders are not serving its rank and file.
Considering the widespread criticism of the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, as well as the unchecked surveillance of Muslim residents, some have called for an inspector general to oversee the NYPD. In this article, originally published in the Amsterdam News on April 11, city officials and mayoral candidates explain their reasons to support or oppose the idea.
Cries of injustice rang through the steps of a Lower Manhattan courthouse, reports The Brooklyn Ink, as Muslim youth and activists spoke out against NYPD practices of stop-and-frisk and community surveillance.
The funeral for Kimani Gray, a teenager who was shot and killed by an NYPD officer, was followed by a demonstration in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, with plenty of police present, local news outlets report.
The controversial stop-and-frisk policy that has led to more than five million people stopped in the streets of New York over the last 11 years “must stop,” the Amsterdam News says in a scathing editorial.
