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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMay 16, 2012
"Stop and frisk has become synonymous with a massive racial-profiling program in this city," NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Tuesday.
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by The Rev. David Brawley onMay 14, 2012
In their search for alternatives to NYPD's routine use of the stop-and-frisk procedure, which targets blacks and Latinos, the Rev. David Brawley and Grant Lindsay present some new ideas in the Daily News.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 30, 2012
The group, including Cornel West, was arrested last year while protesting the NYPD's policy.
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by Joel Dreyfuss onApril 2, 2012
The Trayvon Martin case reminds minorities that submitting to second-class status has not worked.
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by Hillary Crosley onMarch 29, 2012
Black and Latino Bronx, N.Y., natives say that NYPD Operation Clean Halls made them feel inhuman.
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by Sherrilyn A. Ifill onJanuary 3, 2012
No, the legal system didn't help create a post-black America. But there were times when justice prevailed.
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by Nicholas K. Peart onDecember 20, 2011
In a New York Times op-ed, Nicholas K. Peart says he has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times.
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December 20, 2011
Journal-isms: It's been a while since a young black man wrote such an opinion piece in the New York Times.
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by Ta-Nehisi Coates onNovember 3, 2011
Atlantic magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates weighs in on the department's record after the conviction of a detective who was found guilty of planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend.
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by Leonard Pitts Jr. onOctober 30, 2011
Giving police the power to randomly stop and search pedestrians they find suspicious appears to violate the suspects' constitutional rights, Leonard Pitts Jr. writes in his Miami Herald column.
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