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How NYPD's (Blatent Racially Profiling) "Stop and Frisk" Policy Ensnares 600,000 a Year... [View all]
How NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy ensnares 600,000 a year: Scenes from 'Vanguard'
In this scene from "The War on Weed," correspondent Christof Putzel hits the streets of New York City with NYC Resistance, an underground videographer who films some of the 600,000 "stop and frisk" searches performed by the NYPD each year. Ninety percent of those who are stopped are black and Latino, and while across the country in Seattle many are allowed to openly smoke marijuana, in New York there are far harsher consequences -- and questionable tactics being used by authorities.
In this scene from "The War on Weed," correspondent Christof Putzel hits the streets of New York City with NYC Resistance, an underground videographer who films some of the 600,000 "stop and frisk" searches performed by the NYPD each year. Ninety percent of those who are stopped are black and Latino, and while across the country in Seattle many are allowed to openly smoke marijuana, in New York there are far harsher consequences -- and questionable tactics being used by authorities.
http://current.com/shows/vanguard/93558816_how-nypds-stop-and-frisk-policy-ensnares-600-000-a-year-scenes-from-vanguard.htm
Fight Back To Abolish NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Regime
This Friday, January 27, at 1p.m., a community campaign protesting the NYPD’s controversial use of the Stop-and-Frisk police practice in communities of color will take place at 149 St. and Third Avenue in the Bronx.
The action was planned by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, an organization started last July to focus “on the best methods to counter the inhumane 'New Jim Crow' currently enforced by the U.S. criminal injustice system”... snip
According to an analysis by the (NYCLU) New York Civil Liberties Union, “more than 4 million innocent New Yorkers were subjected to police stops and street interrogations from 2004 through 2011… Black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports. ”
The Stop-and-Frisk figures also underscore this: over 80 percent—in some years close to 90 percent—of those, being stopped by the NYPD, are either African-Americans or Latino. African-Americans are stopped over 50 percent of the time and Latinos over 30 percent of the time. Whites are stopped 9 percent of the time—though some believe this figure is even lower... snip
http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7923/2012-01-26.html
This Friday, January 27, at 1p.m., a community campaign protesting the NYPD’s controversial use of the Stop-and-Frisk police practice in communities of color will take place at 149 St. and Third Avenue in the Bronx.
The action was planned by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, an organization started last July to focus “on the best methods to counter the inhumane 'New Jim Crow' currently enforced by the U.S. criminal injustice system”... snip
According to an analysis by the (NYCLU) New York Civil Liberties Union, “more than 4 million innocent New Yorkers were subjected to police stops and street interrogations from 2004 through 2011… Black and Latino communities continue to be the overwhelming target of these tactics. Nearly nine out of 10 stopped-and-frisked New Yorkers have been completely innocent, according to the NYPD’s own reports. ”
The Stop-and-Frisk figures also underscore this: over 80 percent—in some years close to 90 percent—of those, being stopped by the NYPD, are either African-Americans or Latino. African-Americans are stopped over 50 percent of the time and Latinos over 30 percent of the time. Whites are stopped 9 percent of the time—though some believe this figure is even lower... snip
http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7923/2012-01-26.html
It should be noted that possession of small amounts of pot was decriminalized in NY in the 70's.
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