On January 11 it will have been a decade since the first of the men we once called “the worst of the worst” were brought to Guantánamo Bay. In the intervening years much has...
Ten Steps Bill de Blasio and Bill Bratton Should Take to Fix Stop-and-Frisk The road to police reform begins with community participation and a court-appointed monitor. David A. Harris December 20,...
By MARK TOOR Police-reform advocates announced Jan. 10 that they were opposing efforts by the police unions to intervene in a suit the Bloomberg administration filed to block an anti-profiling law...
New York City will settle its long-running legal battle over the Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning and often frisking people on the street — a divisive issue at the...
In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration’s crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated...
As the Police Department performed a mounting number of stops on New York streets, voices of opposition, slow and scattershot, struggled to be heard. Complaints, mostly from minority areas, never...
New York City’s accelerating use of police stop-and-frisk tactics has brought a growing chorus of opponents who have been matched in intensity only by the officials who defend the policy. But...
"It's clear that the mayor and commissioner – in the face of everything that points to this policy being unjust, unfair, racist, prejudiced and most importantly ineffective won't do...
Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court spoke up for the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics on Wednesday by granting class-action status to a lawsuit that accuses the New York...
Last week, the New York Police Department released quarterly data on its stop-and-frisk program. The numbers are worse than ever, and they confirm everything that is wrong with this practice. From...
