Tag: NYCLU
In theory, the NYCLU is in favor of a proposal to create IDs for all New Yorkers regardless of their immigration status, but has some major concerns about its implementation. In a statement, the organization wrote that they understand the “significant benefits” of an ID for immigrants, transgendered people or others with identity issues. However, they […]
Today, season two of the critically acclaimed Netflix show Orange Is The New Black is available to stream in full online. To coincide with this date, activist groups have launched a campaign to highlight the real life problems at some of the prisons where the show filmed. One of these is Suffolk County Jail, in Riverhead, Long […]
In a deal sparked by an NYCLU lawsuit, New York State will scale back the use of solitary confinement in its prison system, banning the practice for prisoners under 18 and limiting it for pregnant and developmentally disabled people. “New York State has done the right thing by committing to comprehensive reform of the way […]
Ten years later, some justice for the hundreds and hundreds of people who were unlawfully arrested during protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. In a settlement announced yesterday, the city will pay out $18 million to some 1,800 protesters, journalists, and bystanders. “No lawful protester should ever be treated like a criminal […]
Until recently, if you were stopped and frisked, arrested or issued a summons, then had all charges against you dropped, your name and address would go into a big database the NYPD could use against you in future investigations. Now, thanks to a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union, that’s no longer the […]
Twenty-two-year-old Connecticut resident Willian Barboza was driving through the Catskills town of Liberty, New York last year when he was pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Barboza got home, plead guilty through the mail, and sent his ticket in–but not before eloquently expressing his dissatisfaction, scratching “Liberty” from the ticket, replacing it with “Tyranny,” and offering […]
NYCLU released its analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 stop-and-frisk statistics Wednesday. Briefly, here’s how the numbers look: -The department stopped people 532,911 times in 2012. -Ninety percent of people stopped were innocent, ie. not arrested or ticketed. -Eighty-seven percent of people stopped were black or Latino. -Ten percent of people were white. -In the ten precincts […]
In 2011, 26-year-old Robert Bell was leaving the Slaughtered Lamb Pub on West 4th Street when he saw a few NYPD officers walking by and decided to give them the middle finger behind their backs. When another cop saw Bell do the dirty deed, he arrested Bell and held him at the 6th Precinct for […]
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 […]
