The seed of this story was a question: Did data exist that could offer a more objective view into the issue of NYPD summonses and race than was being offered in impassioned and political editorials? We soon found out that very few people knew where to find such data or if it even existed.
Are the police violating New Yorkers’ civil rights one summons at a time? What the geography of 350,000 pink slips in New York City reveals.
Public housing projects are heavily represented among New York City’s 50 most frequent locations for police stops
Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin granted class-action status to a lawsuit condemning the NYPD’s stop and frisk practices. Her decision comes in a 2008 suit filed by four men claiming their fourth amendment constitutional rights were compromised by the NYPD, and allows thousands more plaintiffs to take part in the legal challenge. The […]
The NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy is failing in the very area it was designed to target — gun control — according to new analysis released by the New York Civil Liberties Union today. The detailed interrogation of the police department’s own stop-and-frisk records indicates a record 685,724 people were stopped and frisked by […]
Many worshipers say they’re resigned to the scrutiny they receive as part of anti-terrorism policing
Bronx Defenders survey of hundreds arrested for possession finds most were improperly forced to show drugs to police
What rules govern the NYPD when it operates outside of New York City? In the past few days, the Associated Press has published two reports detailing aggressive surveillance of Muslims by the New York Police Department. One of the most notable aspects of this surveillance is where it took place: on college campuses across the […]
Only 13 percent of the 4.3 million stops made by city police in the last decade have led to an arrest or summons
Authors John Eterno and Eli Silverman scrutinize COMPSTAT and raise sharp questions about its accuracy
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