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Fourth Amendment news--CCR press release on stop and frisk in NYC

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The following is a press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights: New NYPD Data for 2009 Shows Significant Rise in Stop-and-Frisks: More than Half Million New Yorkers Stopped Last Year Racial Disparity Increases in Stops With 87 Percent of People Stopped Black and Hispanic February 17, 2010, New York, NY –- The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) found significant racial disparity in the fourth quarter data for 2009 on stop-and-frisks just released by the New York City Police Department. CCR, which represents victims of the NYPD’s racially discriminatory stop-and-frisk policies in a class action lawsuit, will receive more comprehensive data than the summary numbers released to the City Council yesterday and will provide those results next week...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 17, 2010 (boomark / email).