Sentences with phrase «department traffic checkpoints»

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Story topics: Buffalo Police Department / National Center of Law and Economic Justice / traffic safety checkpoints / WNY Law Center

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments, after a complaint filed by members of Black Lives Matter Buffalo and other community groups accused the department of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policiDepartment's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments, after a complaint filed by members of Black Lives Matter Buffalo and other community groups accused the department of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policidepartment of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing.»

Last week, Schneiderman's office launched a separate investigation of the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments in response to a complaint filed by Black Lives Matter - Buffalo.

The lawsuit, which will be brought in Erie County Supreme Court, challenges the police department's refusal to produce records about the city's traffic safety checkpoint program, which were requ...

The department's Strike Force was formed in 2012 to work with state troopers and Erie County Sheriff's investigators, focusing on crime enforcement and traffic checkpoints in areas identified as crime hot spots.