An analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department’s use of the tactic uncovers its overall ineffectiveness. An analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk uncovered racial bias and ineffectiveness, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Lance Hannon, a Villanova University professor of sociology and criminology, conducted the research based on police data from 2014 to 2015. One […]
Trump’s response to healing the racial divide in America is to offer the Black community more “law and order.” Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met face-to-face on Monday night for their first presidential debate at Hofstra University. The two candidates touched on a number of issues and spent a considerable amount of time addressing racial tensions around the […]
It came as no surprise to some African-Americans this week when news broke that a former aide to President Richard M. Nixon developed anti-drug policies that targeted Black people.
Freeway Ricky Ross, 55, the former Los Angeles kingpin that ruled the country at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, was arrested last week…
CNN anchor Don Lemon, reviled on social media for a commentary headlined, “STOP and FRISK: Would You Rather Be Politically Correct or Safe and Alive?”…
A recent video documenting an apparent stop-and-frisk procedure on two men is currently undergoing online scrutiny and exposing the aggressive, verbally violent (at the very least)…
A federal judge declared that the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy violates the citizen's 4th Amendment rights.
Princeton professor and civil rights activist Cornel West was arrested this afternoon in New York at a protest against the NYPD’s “Stop and Frisk” protests. West was arrested this past weekend for another protest he was involved in. The picture above was captured by Russia Today producer Lucy Kafanov. The issue has been picking up steam […]