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.
Posts Tagged ‘New York Civil Liberties Union’
NYPD Preying on NYC’s Black and Latinos? – Stats From New York Civil Liberties Union
Friday, August 14th, 2009RE: NYCLU Suit Against NYPD For Cops Accosting Yankee Fan Who Needed to Relieve Himself
Sunday, April 19th, 2009“Yankees Shouldn’t Be Enforcing Patriotism at Park”
RE: NYCLU Suit Against NYPD Regarding Yankee Fan Who Needed to Relieve Himself
Tim Dahlberg writes near the end of his piece: “The bottom line is, we all love our country. A lot of us love baseball, too.” I think a better bottom line is from another paragraph in his piece published in the NY Times: “Paying good money to see a ballgame is one thing. Being forced to engage in an act of faux patriotism when you really, really, have to go, is quite another.”
Everybody say amen.