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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 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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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 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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by Les Payne onJuly 19, 2010
Blanketing minority communities, the Big Apple's "random" stops only increase hostility and risk for black and Hispanic New Yorkers.
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May 13, 2010
Minorities are more likely to get stopped and frisked than whites but not more likely to get arrested.
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