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** Article and video feature Make the Road New York representative to Peoples' Justice, Jesus Gonzalez, and Vince Warren of Center for Constitutional Rights. Sorry for the delayed post! "Stop and frisks" hit record high in 2010http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=7974889 Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Jim Hoffer, Eyewitness News NEW YORK (WABC) --New statistics show that New York Police Department officers made a record number of stop and frisks last year. More than 600,000 people were stopped, most of them frisked, and 85-percent of them black and Latino. The overwhelming number of them were innocent, with just 7-percent leading to an arrest and even fewer guns found. "New York needs to find a better way to fight crime than stopping half a million people a year only to get a few arrests," Vince Warren of the Center For Constitutional Rights said. |
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Sunday, 06 March 2011 |
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* Sorry, we're a little late in posting this great article by Colorlines. 20 Years After Rodney King, Who’s Holding CopsAccountable?colorlines.com/archives/2011/03/police_brutality_and_the_power_of_video_20_years_after_rodney_king.html by Julianne Hing, Thursday, March 32011, 4:41 PM EST Twenty years ago today Rodney King was dragged out of his Hyundai sedan just after midnight and beaten by Los Angeles police after an eight-mile chase through San FernandoValley that ended in Lake View Terrace. Officers surrounded the 25-year-old taxi driver and construction worker and kicked, tased and beat him with their batons held like baseball bats. The attack was illuminated by the a spotlight provided by a LAPD helicopter hovering overhead, and the headlights of police cars that surrounded King’s car. |
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Saturday, 05 March 2011 |
**The Center for Constitutional Rights just mounted a huge ad about stop-and-frisk in Times Square. See it here: http://ccrjustice.org/stop-and-frisk-does-not-reduce-crime
This is their press release: Stop-and-Frisks of New Yorkers in 2010 Hit All-Time High at 600,601; 87 Percent of Those Stopped Black and LatinoCCR Launches Stop-and-Frisk Jumbotron Ad in Times Squarehttp://ccrjustice.org/stop-and-frisk-does-not-reduce-crime CONTACT:
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February 24, 2011, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for the year 2010 made available to the press. CCR also launched a 15-second spot on the Jumbotron in Times Square to raise awareness of the issue. CCR, which represents victims of the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk policies in a class action lawsuit, Floyd v. City of New York, will receive by court order more comprehensive data than the summary numbers released yesterday and will provide those results as soon as they are available. |
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011 |
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Thursday, 03 March 2011 |
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Bicyling Teen: Surveillance Video Shows Police Brutality Check out the video here: NYPD Internal Affairs is investigating allegations of police brutality related to the arrest of a teenager in a Bronx bodega last Friday night. Surveillance video (below) from the bodega shows the teen, Jorge Cartagena Jr., saying something to an unidentified officer as the cop exits the deli. The cop then whirls around, grabs the teen, and flings him against a shelf of snack food. Moments earlier, outside the bodega, the officer had given Cartagena Jr., 19, a warning about riding his bike on the sidewalk. |
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