Can Stop-and-Frisk Be ‘Mended’?
The New York Times (US)
Wednesday, June 19, 2012
Wednesday, June 19, 2012
As marchers in Manhattan protested the Police Department’s increasingly unpopular stop-and-frisk program on Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took to the pulpit at a predominantly black church in Brooklyn and said the policy must be “mended, not ended.” But a Sunday visit to church is not going to fix a program that ensnares hundreds of thousands of residents a year, most of them black and Hispanic. The city will have to do much more to calm public anger and bring this runaway program into line with constitutional law.
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