NYPD has stopped and interrogated more innocent people during the first six months of 2009 than during any six-month period since it began collecting data on its troubling stop-and-frisk program: The overwhelming majority of whom were black and Latino. They did nothing wrong but … their names and home addresses are now stored in an NYPD database.
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It is now 11:49 a.m. and a few seconds. Will be checking out throughout the day on how news media, especially mainstream, works with this story.
Tags: New York Civil Liberties Union, NYPD, NYPD interrogates blacks and hispanics, racial profiling, stop and frisk