Len Levitt: Race and the NYPD: It's Complicated

A shrewd move by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, appointing Phil Banks, a high-ranking black officer, as the NYPD's chief of department.
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Jacob Sullum on New York's Unconstitutional Stop-and-Frisk Program

Last week a federal judge began to hear testimony
in a class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the
New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program. Senior Editor
Jacob Sullum says the suit makes a persuasive case that the program
violates the Fourth Amendment because police routinely stop people
without reasonable suspicion that they are engaged in criminal
activity.

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