Sentences with phrase «of police stops»

An NYCLU analysis shows that young black and latino men accounted for a grossly disproportionate number of police stops in 2011, and the NYPD responds.

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.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.

Bratton pointed to 2011, when the number of police stops reached 685,000, while rapes, assaults and grand larcenies increased.

According to another memorandum filed in the lawsuit, the Police Department had voiced its own concern about the legality of police stops at housing projects.

Just a month after Theresa May told the Commons that the ratio of police Stop and Searches compared to arrests was far too high, the Home Office refused to state how many hundreds of people had been stopped by immigration officers compared to arrests in what looked to many like a racial profiling exercise.

Not exact matches

The marchers, holding a forest of banners, filled a street a short distance from the parliament complex and advanced noisily until they were stopped by a barricade and lines of police, holding batons, shields and guns capable of firing gas canisters.

The section being upheld allows police in Arizona to check the immigration status of anyone they stop.

The changes were made to stop police bailing suspects for very long periods of time, as previously there was no legal limit.

In one memorable example, the «green police» stop a long line of smog - belching cars but wave a lone, righteous diesel from VW's Audi division through with a cheery, «You're good to go, sir.»

Police will be monitoring impact of the fake girl on traffic; she was designed to jolt drivers into paying attention but give those travelling at the street's recommended 30 kilometres per hour enough time to stop.

Among his long track record of policing misconduct, Arpaio conducted immigration raids into predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods and ordered officers to racially profile subjects during traffic stops.

Most of the time these regulations are just background noise, but at the heart of most passenger horror stories lies some rule that transformed an ordinary service interaction into something more akin to a police stop.

This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

To get to the U.S. Attorney's office, a visitor must wind his way through a phalanx of blue police barricades, stop by a kiosk manned by a U.S. marshal, enter a giant white tent with police and metal detectors, and proceed to a bulletproof visitors desk, replete with armed guards.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

The deaths of Alton and Philando drove home how urgently we need to make reforms to policing and criminal justice... how we can not rest until we root out implicit bias and stop the killings of African - Americans.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

Under high alert, police stopped a Moroccan man in front of the hall and asked him for his ID, said a spokesman for police in the northeastern region of Catalonia where Barcelona is located.

Similar disparities affect Minneapolis, near the tiny city of Falcon Heights where Philando Castile was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop on July 6.

Spanish authorities say they worked with Ecuadorean police to stop a freighter off the South American country's coast carrying more than 5.5 metric tons of cocaine headed to Spain.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in throwing out A) a requirement that police try to determine the immigration status of people they stop under suspicion of even minor crimes; B) a law that made it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek employment; and C) a law that let police arrest a person without a warrant if they believed the person may have committed a crime that could lead to deportation.

Members of the group stopped using the app several months ago after realizing it had been compromised, but it still made it easier to swiftly purge tens of thousands of teachers, police, soldiers and justice officials in the wake of the coup.

With such deep internal cracks on a refugee allocation plan, Brussels will focus on making the external border police efficient, and will prioritize its partnership with Turkey in order to stop the flow of refugees from entering the Schengen area.

Jamie Murray was warned by two police officers to stop playing DVDs of the New Testament in his cafe following a complaint from a customer that it was inciting hatred against homosexuals.

Justice Minister Rob Nicholson stopped to admire a man wearing a vintage uniform of the North West Mounted Police from the late 1800s.

At 2:24 p.m., just five minutes after police say the gunman got out of the car in front of the school, the shooting stopped, according to an official police timeline.

Of those, God told one to steal a car and go to Minnesota to receive divine blessings (stopped by police on the way); another was «told» to spend all her money on a plane ticket as there was a grant waiting for her in another state to go to college with (there wasn't, and she had to call relatives to rescue her); another was told to cut himself; another was told to harm people (but only avoided doing this because he called police and was put inpatient).

«I bought the jammer from a local electrical store and asked the police if it was OK and they said it was - it's great as it has stopped the problem but some of the local shops aren't happy.»

Or a criminal justice system that frisks 85 % of blacks and Latinos stopped by police, but only 8 % of whites.

A small group of California churches has pledged to stop calling the police for help in emergencies, saying they'll utilize a «more community - based» crime fighting system.

When Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, it looked like Ferguson, Missouri, was going to serve as just one more stop on the national tour of this classic drama.

Stop trying to develop the next system to ensure we police ourselves to somehow be «good enough» to truly be worthy of Christs work.

He immediately stopped the police use of gas masks, heavy riot armor, and SWAT trucks with sniper posts, according to The Washington Post.

After glossing over «stop and frisk,» he declares, «Undoubtedly there are other changes in police tactics that can reduce the likelihood of police violence.»

Cordileone was stopped at a routine DUI checkpoint, according to Lt. Gary Hassen of the San Diego police.

Picture Diamond Reynolds calmly recording the aftermath of her boyfriend Philando Castile's shooting by a police officer during a traffic stop — and her daughter alongside her telling her to be strong.

Stephen Timms, said some of the constituents he spoke to on Monday were «concerned» about the unrest and campaigner's claims that 25 year old Edir Frederico Da Costa was brutally beaten after police stopped his car.

Video from the region shows rows and rows of men stopping to pray together before returning to hurling stones at the Egyptian police.

«The gunmen were attempting to stop them and the victims accelerated in efforts of getting away from them,» the police statement said.

While police in Overland Park, Kansas, stopped short of labeling the Sunday attacks a hate crime until they were further along in their investigation, the suspect - Frazier Glenn Miller - is the founder and former leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party.

But our car was stopped by the police, and we were actually arrested on the utterly false charge of speeding.

Police claim Pastor Willie ordered the men to stop and threatened them with his gun before firing at least eight shots at one of them hitting him in the head.

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.

If a terrorist is about to throw a bomb into a crowded theater, and a police officer is certain that there is no way to stop him except to kill him, the officer should of course kill the terrorist.

Or if the shooter had not told the police that the flat was booby - trapped (before he clammed up and would help no further)-- again there would have been further serious loss of lives — Oh yes, God may not have been able to stop all of the loss of life, and I appreciate that it does not make it any easier for those who lost loved ones, but He was watching, and I believe he did all he could to make the losses much lower than they could have been, or were.

Okanagan Wineries Ask for Stronger Police Presence After Rash of Break - Ins: A group of winery owners in the South Okanagan says the province needs to do more to stop thieves from stealing computers, equipment and wine...

So, at Morlock's suggestion, the car was stopped briefly and then went on again through the tunnel into New Jersey — with Schweinberger hidden in the luggage compartment, safe from the prying eyes of the border police.

Can we stop pretending that the Las Vegas police department is the Justice League who are nothing but a bunch of hardworking, misunderstood children who are the victims of circumstance?

Not pleased with the company Liston was keeping — one of his pals was 385 - pound Barney Baker, a reputed head - cracker for the Teamsters — the St. Louis police kept stopping Liston, on sight and without cause, until, on May 5, 1956, 3 1/2 years after his release from prison, Liston assaulted a St. Louis policeman, took his gun, left the cop lying in an alley and hid the weapon at a sister's house.