The NYPD has made some outrageous claims throughout the federal stop-and-frisk trial, but perhaps none more ridiculous than this: that any claims of racial profiling involving the practice are completely fabricated. Never mind the audio evidence, never mind the stats, never mind the personal testimony–it’s all fiction, according to department leadership. Department chief Joseph J. […]
Great news! NYC has seen a decrease in violent crime during the first quarter of the year, with shootings and murders dropping by 24% and 40%, respectively. Incidentally, the number of Stop-and-Frisks carried out by the NYPD has also gone down significantly during this time period. “From January 1 through March 31 of this year, […]
When Mayor Bloomberg gave his seething defense of stop-and-frisk this week, one thing he touched on was the murder of Alphonza Bryant, a 17-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx last month. Opponents of the stop-and-frisk would allow more deaths like Bryant’s, Bloomberg’s logic went, because the controversial NYPD practice curtails gun violence. Jenaii […]
Mayor Bloomberg has just had it up to here with you bullies who are constantly attacking the NYPD over stop-and-frisk. Yesterday, the mayor gave a big, blustery speech at police headquarters to let the media, mayoral candidates, and plaintiffs in lawsuits against the department past and present that this aggression would not stand. He also […]
Hearings in the federal case against stop-and-frisk will include pretrial testimony from officers Michael Noboa, Kha Dang, and Edgar Gonzalez, three of the four cops responsible for the most recorded stops in a three-month period in 2009. The Times obtained hundreds of pages of the testimony, much of which focused on the reasons the officers might stop a particular […]
Evindence presented by the plaintiffs in the federal class-action lawsuit against stop-and-frisk points to institutionalized racial profiling in one NYPD precinct. Recorded by officer Pedro Serrano, the tape contains a heated exchange with commanding officer Christopher McCormack in which Serrano presses McCormack on what types of people officers should be stopping. McCormack continually uses the term […]
Floyd v. City of New York, a class-action lawsuit that’s the most wide-ranging of three recent cases against the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, begins hearing today. The suit, which centers around a Bronx medical student, challenges the constitutionality of the entire stop-and-frisk process, and alleges that officers are pressured to meet quotas, unfairly biased black and […]
On paper, yesterday’s police budget hearing should have been a routine affair: commissioner Ray Kelly outlines the department’s yearly budget to City Council, and council members have a chance to react and ask questions. Several members, however, seized the opportunity to lob thinly masked and totally open critiques of NYPD tactics at the department boss. […]
In an effort to bring more citizen oversight to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union has brought its innovative Stop and Frisk Watch mobile app to the iPhone. Using the app, New Yorkers can take video recordings of any stop they witness (not when they’re being stopped themselves–relax, NYP), then […]
The NYPD has released a report detailing the precinct and racial demographics of all stop-and-frisks from 2011, after receiving pressure from the New York Civil Liberties Union. The results are astounding, and just another indication of the racial profiling and bias that goes into the practice. Ninety percent of stops in all of the city […]
