NYPD frisks, searches, violates civil liberties daily - Human Events (blog)
21 February 2012, 12:16 pm
A troubling new trend has taken hold in New York City; frisking, searching and scanning takes place on a daily basis by the New York Police Department. Reports made by the New York Civil Liberties Union concluded that 684,330 people in the city were ...

New York Police Stop And Frisk Record Numbers - Personal Liberty Digest
19 February 2012, 5:55 pm
New York City is at the center of the police state. New York City Police Department officials say that last year, police officers officially recorded more than 684,000 stop-and-frisks — a 14 percent increase from the year before, according to NY 1.

Corrections and clarifications - The Guardian
16 February 2012, 11:11 am
Scrutiny mounts as NYPD 'stop-and-frisk' searches hit record high was corrected because the original said the practice of NYPD stop-and-frisks generates 7,500 complaints per year. In fact stop-and-frisks generated 1,985 complaints in 2010 ...

Report: Eighty-Seven Percent of NYPD Stops-and-frisks Are Black and Latino - BET
15 February 2012, 9:39 am
An overwhelming 87 percent of all people stopped and interrogated by the NYPD in 2011 were Black and Latino, says a New York Civil Liberties Union analysis of NYPD arrest data. In addition to the startling figures concerning Black and Latino ...

NYPD's Stop-and-frisks Reach Record Highs - WNYC
14 February 2012, 2:26 pm
Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who covers criminal justice, terrorism and the courts for WNYC. She found her way into public radio after practicing law for five years, and can definitely say that walking the streets of New York City ...

NYPD stops and questions nearly 1,900 people a day, a record, statistics show - Staten Island Advance
14 February 2012, 7:17 am
The so-called stop-and frisks totaled 684,330, a record since the NYPD began yearly tallies of the tactic in 2002. It's a 14 percent increase over 2010. The Wall Street Journal reports that it couldn't be determined how many people were patted ...

Stop-and-frisks Hit Record in 2011 - Wall Street Journal
13 February 2012, 10:34 pm
New York City police officers stopped and questioned 684,330 people last year, a record number since the department started producing yearly tallies of the tactic. The total marked a 14% increase over 2010, according to statistics viewed by The ...

Scott Stringer And Jumaane Williams Call For NYPD To Reform Stop And Frisk - Politicker
13 February 2012, 5:55 pm
The NYCLU report showed the NYPD conducted stop-and-frisks 684,330, the highest total since the department began collecting stop-and-frisk statistics in 2002 and a 603 percent increase since that year. About 87 percent of those stopped and ...

Another City’s Lesson About Crime Reduction - New York Times
9 February 2012, 11:44 pm
Still, an inclination to blindly ape New York could bring perils. For example, the city has relied on a prodigious increase in stop-and-frisks, many concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods. Those aggressive methods can bring costs, especially ...

NYPD Arrests for Marijuana Soar in 2011, Second Highest on Record - Village Voice (blog)
2 February 2012, 1:00 pm
It was also the year NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was forced, after Bloomberg's initiative was so widely mocked, to clarify that stop-and-frisks couldn't include illegal searches that made marijuana become in public view because a cop had illegally taken it ...