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Study Finds Tens of Thousands of Street Stops by N.Y. Police Unjustified

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Study Finds Street Stops by N.Y. Police Unjustified By AL BAKER and RAY RIVERA Published: October 26, 2010- NY Times Tens of thousands of times over six years, the police stopped and questioned people on New York City streets without the legal justification for doing so, a new study says. And in hundreds of thousands of more cases, city officers failed to include essential details on required police forms to show whether the stops were justified, according to the study written by Prof. Jeffrey A. Fagan of Columbia Law School. The study was conducted on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is suing the New York Police Department for what the center says is a widespread pattern of unprovoked and unnecessary stops and racial profiling in the department?s stop-question-and-frisk policy...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).