Sentences with phrase «frisking people»

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has embarked on an expedition to review the Police Department's program of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who seem criminally inclined.

The NYPD has said that its surveillance is legal and that stop and frisk — a technique of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who are seen as acting suspiciously but who don't necessarily meet the probable - cause standard for arrest — has helped drive crime down to record lows and save lives by taking weapons off the street.

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.

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.

They have said police are free, under the bill, to chase leads that include descriptions but can not stop and frisk people based solely on those descriptions.

For something like stop - and - frisk data, where it's known whether a frisked person actually had a weapon, the approach works.

The Canadian Charter grants the «right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure,» but one of the main exceptions to this is a search incident to an arrest, which allows a police officer to frisk a person who has been lawfully arrested.

Not exact matches

Being followed, harassed, frisked or stopped for no apparent reason (other than one's darker skin color) is simply a reality for many black people, especially black men.

We need to understand the legacy of lynching more honestly and carefully, we need to even revisit segregation and the legacy that it's created if we're going to make progress I think there is a continuing presumption of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to people of color, I think it would break Dr. King's heart to know that black youth in New York are getting stopped and frisked, that this police violence that has been such a problem for over a century continues, that we haven't made the commitment to overcoming bigotry and race discrimination in the way we need to.

Bronx prosecutors have quietly stopped charging people arrested for trespassing on public housing projects through stop and frisk procedures, unless they interview the arressting officer and the officer convinces them to proceed.

STUPIIDSMITHGATE is just a tip of the iceberg «THE FEDS» have been under the covers with agents for a long time & many people are wearing wires & Tabone knew that and he did a body frisk & FAILED to Find it if the report is correct.

This usually crops up when young people of color are asked to empty their pockets by police (yes, even now that the NYPD has reduced the frequency of stop - and - frisks); in 2010, the state arrested more than 100,000 people for marijuana possession, leaving more reactionary destinations like Texas in the dust.

The hashtag became, as one user called it, a «smashtag» as it was hijacked by people tweeting pictures of officers engaged in alleged police brutality, or, in one example, apparently frisking a dog.

NYCLU filed a class - action lawsuit challenging the NYPD's practice of retaining records of people who were stopped and frisked but never found guilty of anything.

Bratton continued to oversee the drop in stop and frisks that started during the Bloomberg administration and also agreed to other changes such as reducing marijuana arrests and giving police the discretion to arrest people for other minor offenses such as public drinking and public urination.

Gangi points to bias in law enforcement, citing data that shows while stop - and - frisks or arrests for certain offenses may be down, racial disparities remain, with people of color stopped or arrested far more often than white people.

«It's really important for people to know: they can threaten to take away money but they can not tell us how to police our streets and we are not going back to a broken policy of stop - and - frisk,» de Blasio told Hot 97 this morning.

«My goal is to get people on that side of the aisle to stop, question and frisk their thinking.

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.»

The city will also take part in a joint process with community stakeholders to ensure people affected by stop - and - frisk play an active role in shaping reform.

De Blasio said the city is safer even though the police stop, question, frisk and arrest fewer people.

A Manhattan judge tossed an NYPD union's challenge to a law that makes it easier for people who think they were racially profiled by cops before a stop and frisk to sue individual officers.

«And once police abuse power when it comes to stop - and - frisk then they can do it in terms of falsely arresting people.

Thompson or De Blasio will make a good Mayor, Quinn can't be trusted she is more like a Bloomberg and she want to keep Ray Kelly in place which is not good because he is the face of stop and frisk and by her want to keep him in place will hurt her chances of being the Mayor of NYC, Anthony Weiner has too much going on in his private life and is unstable, Liu don't have enough going on to be Mayor so i believe Thompson or DeBlasio will be more honest and get the job done for the City of NY, Bloomberg was a failure from the beginning he is arrogant he don't really care for the little people.

(Thousands of people held a silent march to protest the NYPD's stop - and - frisk program.

The database is a list of people who have been stopped and frisked by police, whether they had been arrested or not.

I am going to run on a message that we created affordable housing, that we improved test scores in our schools, created pre-K and after school programs on an unprecedented level, reduced crime, reduced stop and frisk, created municipal IDs — now close to half a million people have them.»

Sayegh contended many of these arrests occur when young people are stopped and frisked by police and asked to empty their pockets.

«I'm going to run on a message that we created affordable housing, that we improved test scores in our schools, created pre-K and after school programs on an unprecedented level, reduced crime, reduced stop - and - frisk, created municipal ID's now close to a half a million people have them,» Mr. de Blasio said.

He told people that there were no homeless people living in the streets of New York, and most recently, he felt that more blacks and Latinos needed to be stopped and frisked as opposed to whites,» Liu said.

«It's because people knew there was the potential that they'd be stopped and frisked.

Under stop - and - frisk, a police officer could ask a person to turn out their pockets, and if they had marijuana in them, by exposing it while complying with the officer, they could be arrested — and get a police record.

He announced the decision this past Thurs., Jan. 30th, explaining that his administration would not appeal Judge Shira Scheindlin's ruling last summer deeming stop and frisk practices an unconstitutional violation of people's rights.

«Yes, it's down significantly from the height of stop and frisk, but there's still lots of people that are getting caught up in these marijuana arrests» Alyssa Aguilera, executive director of VOCAL - NY, said.

«They don't stop and frisk white people in Tottenville.

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.

In stop - and - frisks, officers approach, question and sometimes pat down people police say were behaving suspiciously — acting like a lookout or carrying a pry bar, for example — but weren't necessarily sought in any particular crime.

Isaiah's dad, José Rivera, said stop - and - frisk «could have stopped this person, whoever did this, from having a gun.»

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.

«I know a lot of people who have been stopped and frisked,» said Simmons.

Thompson, the only black person in the mayoral race, has previously said that they way stop - and - frisk is conducted is akin to institutionalized bias.

The NYPD spy on innocent Muslim children and their parents, illegally stop, question, frisk, search THOUSANDS of New Yorkers (mostly Blacks and Latinos — including LGBT people).

Sixty percent of those polled said stop and frisk is excessive and harasses innocent people, while 31 percent say it is an acceptable way to make the city safer.

A U.S. District Court judge is considering whether to order reforms to stop and frisk after a 10 - week bench trial in which a dozen people testified that they were stopped by police solely because of their race.

Wading into the debate over stop - and - frisk police tactics, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask legislators on Monday for a change in New York State law that would drastically reduce the number of people who could be arrested for marijuana possession as a result of police stops.

He said that the enthusiasm among some lawmakers and advocacy groups for Mr. Cuomo's proposal was «all about stop - and - frisk,» and, citing several young people in his district who had died of prescription drug overdoses in recent months, questioned the message it would send to young people about drug use.

It would address problems with New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which has led to misdemeanor convictions for people carrying small amounts of the drug for private use.

In a country that finally freed the African American people 150 years after we brutally shackled them, now 150 years later we're still living in a culture when anyone with the wrong color skin can be forcefully stopped and frisked on the street — or worse — followed, hounded, hunted like strays and gunned down point blank.

As with «stop and frisk,» there's a case to be made that these are the people who should decide whether the tradeoffs are worth it.

«People who are interested in passive - house design have a different approach about how they want to live and exist in the world,» says Frisk.