Sentences with phrase «frisking at»

Even with its notorious incompetence, government is now able to surveil as never before, and many people have grown afraid or complacent, as the mass frisking at airports proves.

Not exact matches

Short of frisking employees at the front door, however, there's no way of keeping these gadgets out of the building.

Freedom to ban certain marriages for no reason, freedom to demand ID'd at random, freedom to stop and frisk people, freedom to have your phones tapped.

David B. Frisk, a resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute, is the author of If Not Us, Who?

Until several years ago, it was common for students who had been smudging at South Dakota to be frisked by dormitory officials and to have their rooms searched and their smudging materials confiscated.

Attempting to fire back at Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson set out this morning to clarify his position on stop and frisk and the pending Community Safety Act.

He said he looked Trump «in the eye» during their meeting at Trump Tower this week and told him that the city has become safer since drastically reducing the use of stop - and - frisk policing, a tactic the Republican president - elect has praised.

At one point, the council also heard testimony from Jose LaSalle, an anti-stop-and-frisk activist whose 16 - year - old stepson recently released an audio tape that he claims documents his own experience being stopped and frisked.

CITY HALL — The City Council doesn't have the power to reign in the NYPD's controversial stop - and - frisk program, the Bloomberg administration argued Wednesday during a heated hearing that had members at each other's throats.

Mulgrew encouraged delegates to join the Father's Day silent march against the city's «stop - and - frisk» policy to be held at 1 p.m. at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues.

Ms. Colvin, set to begin work in two weeks, has received a number of recognitions for her reporting, including for a recent in - depth look at the city police department's controversial stop - and - frisk tactic.

He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

«At the public safety forum last week, I expressed that the City must continue its laser - like focus on reducing crime; that the IG legislation is ill - conceived; we should invigorate stop, question and frisk and not limit it as a policing tactic,» he said in a statement.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton with Mayor Bill de Blasio at a January 2014 press conference announcing that the city would not appeal a judge's ruling that «stop and frisk» is unconstitutional.

NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton heard concerns from several African - American leaders about stop - and - frisk and racial profiling Tuesday night at a reception hosted by Citibank global banking head Ray McGuire and his wife, author Crystal McCrary, at their home.

NY Police Commissioner Bill Bratton heard concerns from several African - American leaders about stop - and - frisk and racial profiling Tuesday night at a reception hosted by Citibank global banking head Ray McGuire and...

Nevertheless, the ad is clearly geared at illustrating de Blasio's racially diverse family — his wife is black, his children biracial — and ties it together with his concerns on stop and frisk as well as after school programs.

Mayor Bloomberg lashed out at one of the chief critics of the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy, calling the New York Civil Liberties Union «dangerously wrong» and «no better than the NRA» for opposing the tactic.

At 1 p.m., attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights hold press conference following Court of Appeals argument on the Bloomberg administration's request to further delay court - ordered remedies in the stop - and - frisk lawsuit; 40 Centre Street, 40 Foley Square, Manhattan.

A court - appointed monitor has called into question the NYPD's stop - and - frisk data, finding that some officers still don't understand the rules governing the practice and that some admitted they had filled out stop - and - frisk reports «for encounters that were not stops at all.»

De Blasio campaign spokesman Dan Levitan responded with a shot at the Republican real estate exec, who until recently lived in Larchmont in Westchester, for his failure to answer questions on whether he supports expanding police use of stop and frisk.

At the center of the race were disagreements over taxes and the city's controversial «stop - and - frisk» program backed by incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

At a news conference Monday morning, City Councilman Charles Barron called for an end to the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy and a commitment from the city to invest $ 200 million in youth centers in poor neighborhoods.

Ms. James, whose voice booms like a preacher's at press conferences, has emerged as one of the loudest members of the City Council when it comes to issues she's focused on, including not only CityTime but cuts to social services, the police department's stop - and - frisk policy and the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, located in her Fort Greene - based district.

«The reason why I joined this case is because for many of us, including myself, feel like stop - and - frisk is police abuse,» said Lalit Clarkson, 31, a teacher at the Grand Concourse Academy Charter School in The Bronx who was stopped near the school on a lunch break in 2006.

There was no mention of the stop - and - frisk controversy that erupted near the end of his run as commissioner — at least in the early publicity material, although it is expected to be addressed.

The councilwoman was caught being fed an answer on stop - and - frisk by the head of the police union, Pat Lynch, and came under fire after she was caught repeatedly staring at her cell phone during a debate in May.

Outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton took a parting shot Monday at critics of the NYPD's stop - and - frisk and broken - windows policies.

But it came at a time of heightened tension over the Police Department's tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people in minority neighborhoods of the city.

At the lectern, Mr. de Blasio told the church's black congregation about the launch of his universal pre-kindergarten plan and signing of a new executive order mandating higher wages at city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated CongresAt the lectern, Mr. de Blasio told the church's black congregation about the launch of his universal pre-kindergarten plan and signing of a new executive order mandating higher wages at city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated Congresat city - subsidized companies — peppering his speech with religious references, criticisms of the stop - and - frisk policing policy and expressions of sympathy for President Barack Obama and his struggles with the Republican - dominated Congress.

Bloomberg spoke at another church over the weekend in defense of stop - and - frisk, which he says needs to be mended, not ended.

But perhaps what was most telling was Mayor Bloombergs desperate attempt to increase his chance of defeating stop and frisk legislation by having Dilan vacate his seat, truth is Eric Ulrich is also rumored to be weighing his options at the Board, but we digress.

The filing takes aim at one element of the department's controversial stop - and - frisk policy and comes after a failed bid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana, which would have eliminated the distinction between having a small amount in a pocket and holding it in your hand.

«I think the rise in shootings is proof positive that proactive policing has taken a hit in this city,» Ignizio, who voted against the Community Safe Act aimed at reforming stop - and - frisk last year, said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio made the announcement during a press conference at the 25th precinct in East Harlem Thursday — an area where officials want to improve relationships between police and the community after years of stop - and - frisk.

And I think [with] «stop - question - and - frisk,» «reasonable suspicion stops,» that's a profound problem,» Bratton said while addressing reporters following his speech at the New York Law School in Lower Manhattan this morning.

Bratton echoed the new administration's call for keeping crime at its historically low levels while repairing damage done in minority neighborhoods by the heavy use of stop - and - frisk policing.

Asked at Tuesday's City Hall press conference whether he wants to expand stop - and - frisk, Massey said he hadn't «established an answer yet.»

«The court's decision, along with the inspector - general bill I recently passed with my council colleagues, will go a long way to ending the unconstitutional use of stop - and - frisk in New York City,» the Democratic mayoral hopeful said at a press conference.

«We have a situation in this city at this time that is so unfortunate,» Bratton said at the press conference held at the Red Hook Justice Center, where both he and de Blasio took aim at the outgoing administration's overuse of stop - and - frisk.

I am a mom and I care about parents who bury their children far too early because of gun violence and whose sons are at risk to be frisked.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The Bronx district attorney's office is no longer prosecuting people stopped at public housing projects under the city's stop - and - frisk policy unless the arresting officer ensures the arrest is warranted.

«I think if we had an inspector general at the NYPD with the independent power of oversight I don't think we would've let stop - and - frisk get out of control the way it has,» de Blasio told 1010 WINS.

The movement on the measures comes amid a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and it follows a series of stories by The Associated Press that revealed how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.

The stop - and - frisk policy has been a hotly debated issue at City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly defending the practice as a way to reduce crime and helped drive down New York's crime rate to the lowest among the country's 25 most populous cities, as measured by the FBI.

This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).

In the news, LES residents (including members of the neighborhood advocacy group, GOLES) testified yesterday at a City Council hearing on the NYPD's controversial «stop and frisk» policy.

«When you look at the fact that the 911 calls do not match the arrests, when you look at the fact that there are more arrests in a black dominated district like Queens Village as opposed to Forest Hills... it is a clear racial pattern as it was with stop - and - frisk.»

When news broke today that Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanted the Legislature to lower the penalty for possessing 25 grams or less of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a violation, the perception was that he was taking a shot at Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's stop - and - frisk program.