The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is known around the world for its history of violence and brutality, particularly against underserved communities of color.…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is furious over a judge’s decision to appoint a federal monitor to oversee the NYPD’s Stop & Frisk program. RELATED:…
photo by: getty images Monday afternoon U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that New York’s Stop & Frisk crime fighting tactics to unconstitutional. She called it “indirect racial profiling” because it targeted certain ethnic groups, resulting in the discriminatory stopping of thousands of innocent black and Hispanic men. “No one should live in fear of being stopped […]
On Sunday at Brooklyn’s Abundant Life Church, N.Y.C mayoral candidate William “Bill” Thompson (pictured) compared New York’s Stop & Frisk policy to the Trayvon Martin case,…
