The End of Stop-and-Frisk as We Know It The End of Stop-and-Frisk as We Know It
Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly lost big: a federal court ruling and a new law ban the racial profiling that undergirds the discriminatory practice.
Aug 28, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
New York City Council Overrides Bloomberg’s Veto of the Community Safety Act New York City Council Overrides Bloomberg’s Veto of the Community Safety Act
The two bills of the act will create an inspector general position to monitor the NYPD and expand categories of New Yorkers protected against profiling.
Aug 22, 2013 / Francis Reynolds
Will There Be Justice for NYPD Victim Ramarley Graham? Will There Be Justice for NYPD Victim Ramarley Graham?
How the shooting death of the unarmed teenager sparked new activism against police violence in the Bronx.
Aug 21, 2013 / Lucy McKeon
Ending Stop-and-Frisk for Good Ending Stop-and-Frisk for Good
How the New York City Council’s Community Safety Act stands the best chance of curtailing the NYPD’s most destructive racial profiling practices.
Aug 21, 2013 / Ross Tuttle and Stephen Maing
Ending Stop-and-Frisk, Keeping the Racism Ending Stop-and-Frisk, Keeping the Racism
The signature policy of the NYPD has been declared unconstitutional, but the racism that provided the justification for it is still alive and well.
Aug 13, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
Did Racial Profiling Put an Unarmed Black Man in Jail in North Carolina? Did Racial Profiling Put an Unarmed Black Man in Jail in North Carolina?
Activists in Durham, North Carolina, have come together in support of Carlos Riley Jr. and against the racial policing they believe has put him behind bars.
Aug 13, 2013 / Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Secret Recording of Stop-and-Frisk Makes it to Federal Court Secret Recording of Stop-and-Frisk Makes it to Federal Court
A federal judge's ruling calls the NYPD's controversial practice unconstitutional and racially discriminatory.
Aug 13, 2013 / Francis Reynolds
The Importance of Judicial Empathy The Importance of Judicial Empathy
The Bloomberg administration accuses a judge of bias for her rulings against the NYPD. But more judges should consider the human implications of police policies.
Aug 5, 2013 / Emily Jane Goodman
What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly? What’s Really Behind Obama’s Praise of Ray Kelly?
Obama sounds the notes of racial justice at key moments, while asserting unprecedented power to implement policies that are destructive, discriminatory—and embodied by the NY...
Aug 5, 2013 / Amna Akbar and Jeanne Theoharis
When Cops Criminalize the Disabled When Cops Criminalize the Disabled
Ethan Saylor died because police responded with rapid and unnecessary force to his disability. I worry, not only for my son with Down Syndrome, but for all others who face similar ...
Aug 1, 2013 / David M. Perry