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NEW YORK (AP) — After more than a decade of complaints, the New York Police Department's practice of stopping and frisking people on the streets has suddenly moved to the forefront as a combustible political issue. City Council members thundered at a hearing that the "stop and frisk" tactic is discriminatory and ineffective. Mayoral hopefuls […]

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New York City police stops of hundreds of thousands of people each year are in the spotlight as city lawmakers consider setting new rules for the stop-and-frisk practice and even appointing an inspector general to monitor the police department. It is too soon to say what laws, if any, will result from City Council hearings […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mayor Ed Lee ended consideration of a tactic that would allow police to stop and frisk suspicious people in an effort to get weapons off San Francisco streets. Lee made the move after meeting with law enforcement officials and community leaders, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. Lee faced an outcry […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Mayor Ed Lee said he wanted to spark a discussion about a spike in violent crime when he mentioned that he was considering a controversial stop-and-frisk policy used by police in New York, Philadelphia and some other big cities. Instead, he has heard an outcry from city officials, civil liberties groups […]

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A two block stretch of West Harlem once religiously strolled as a source of inspiration by such cultural deities as Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Billie Holiday is now drawing dimmed comparisons to such battle zone areas as The West Bank, South Africa and Wall Street in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 as conflicted residents […]

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Proclaiming it the face of modern day racial profiling, the Rev. Al Sharpton is slated to lead a Father’s Day march through Harlem calling further attention to statistics revealing more black and Latino men have been restrained based on the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” policies than there are members of that overall  population throughout […]

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday proposed cutting the penalty for public possession of a small amount of marijuana, a change in state law that would defuse some criticism of the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy in minority communities. With three weeks remaining in the legislative session, Cuomo said his bill […]

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Would someone PLEASE remind New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that this country has a Bill of Rights?   Apparently, the head honcho in the Big Apple hasn’t received that memo, even though a U.S. District judge tried to remind him.   Around mid-May Judge Shira Scheindlin gave a group of blacks and Latinos class […]