redwinter
5th October 2009, 18:41
This is an article from Revolution newspaper detailing the new revelations in a report from the New York Civil Liberties Union called Record Number of Innocent New Yorkers Stopped, Interrogated by NYPD During First Half of Year. From the article: "Based on figures from the NYPD, the NYCLU reports that in the first six months of 2009 alone, cops in New York City stopped more than 273,000 people whoaccording to the police themselveswere not violating any laws. This represents the highest number of innocent people stopped and questioned by the NYPD in six months since the department began keeping stop-and-frisk data."
NYPDs Stop-and-Frisk: Racism and Injustice on a Massive Scale
This is a description of what is happening in a major country in the world today: In the space of a few months, the police in this countrys largest city stop hundreds of thousands of people who are not violating any laws and subject them to humiliating questioning and searches. Most of those stopped are people of oppressed minorities. The police put the names and addresses of everyone they stop this way into their database.
You can imagine how the official voices in the U.S. would howl if this country were one of the countries that the U.S. denounces as run by dictators who deprive the people of their basic rights.
But the fact is, what is described here is not happening in some other countryits right here in the USA, in New York City. This outrageous police practice is called stop-and-frisk.
Continue reading: http://www.revcom.us/a/179/stop_and_frisk-en.html
NYPDs Stop-and-Frisk: Racism and Injustice on a Massive Scale
This is a description of what is happening in a major country in the world today: In the space of a few months, the police in this countrys largest city stop hundreds of thousands of people who are not violating any laws and subject them to humiliating questioning and searches. Most of those stopped are people of oppressed minorities. The police put the names and addresses of everyone they stop this way into their database.
You can imagine how the official voices in the U.S. would howl if this country were one of the countries that the U.S. denounces as run by dictators who deprive the people of their basic rights.
But the fact is, what is described here is not happening in some other countryits right here in the USA, in New York City. This outrageous police practice is called stop-and-frisk.
Continue reading: http://www.revcom.us/a/179/stop_and_frisk-en.html