December 2011
4 posts
A Fresh Movement Against the NYPD's Culture of... →
Chief among activists’ concerns is the NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” policy, which empowers officers to proactively detain people on the street at will. They are then encouraged to cite any number of vague pretexts—with “furtive movements” being a popular choice—as justification for a stop. The NYPD is projected to make 700,000 detentions city-wide in 2011. In 2002, only 73,000 were recorded....
