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6 Sep 2013, 6:31 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From Jurist: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg [official website] filed suit [complaint, PDF] on Tuesday against the New York City Council [official website] in an effort to overturn recently-enacted legislation relating to the New York Police Department (NYPD) [official... [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:00 am
"Relying on a complex statistical analysis presented at trial, Judge Scheindlin found that the racial composition of a census tract played a role in predicting how many stops would occur." [read post]
17 Jul 2010, 5:21 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Jurist has the story, quoting the governor's views: There is a principle - which is compatible with the presumption of innocence, and is deeply ingrained in our sense of justice - that individuals wrongly accused of a crime should suffer... [read post]
20 Sep 2014, 7:22 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
The New York Times has this piece with interesting graphic representations comparing the practice over different time periods. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 7:21 am
  (And more Frisking at TaxProfBlog here)The University of California at Irvine over the last several months has conducted a nationwide search for the founding dean of our school of law...I see. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
This story (from Slate and Inside Higher Ed) discusses recent events at Brown University, in which students repeatedly interrupted a speech by NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly (architect of the city's stop-and-frisk policy), ultimately causing the speech to be canceled. [read post]
28 May 2013, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
In New York, District Judge Shira Scheindlin is presiding over a trial challenging NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies and is widely expected to hold that the program is unconstitutional, also under both the Fourth Amendment and equal protection. [read post]
2 May 2013, 10:59 am by John Pfaff
The NYPD Commissioner, Ray Kelly, defended current stop-and-frisk practices today by noting two statistics: 1. 75% of all violent crimes are committed by African-Americans. 2. 53% of all those stopped are African-American. [read post]
Take the case of the Latino students at Hoover High School in Los Angeles who were rounded up during lunch, detained for two hours, frisked and interrogated about gang affiliations by Glendale and Los Angeles police officers, despite no evidence of wrong doing. [read post]
17 Jun 2012, 5:07 am by Jamison Koehler
The question on appeal was whether police had the requisite probable cause or reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk him. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 10:41 pm by Jon Katz
Drug court judges repeatedly hear police justify stops, frisks, searches and arrests of criminal suspects based on their purported "knowledge, training and experience" and behavior consistent with criminal activity. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 5:30 am by Jordan Rothman
[Washington Post] * Check out a piece on the complicated legacy of Michael Bloomberg's "stop and frisk" policy. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 11:32 am
Security at the Towson facility is more relaxed for attorneys who present their clearance cards upon entry, as it is not standard for the guards to thoroughly frisk lawyers. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 7:22 am by Elysia Cherry
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 8, 2013:Survey of pre-law students finds that nearly 80% want legal education to be more practical Usher ordered to appear in court Wisconsin officials appeal abortion law injunction Man who allegedly shopped Ford video appears in court Latest Salvo In Legal Tug Of War Over Madoff Settlement B.C. man's illegal dental practice shut down Ex-principal who ignored abuse allegations at Ontario school loses… [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 8:36 am
We are especially interested in reviewing the effects of minority images on recently developed and implemented policing policies, such as Stop and Frisk and Stand Your Ground. [read post]
2 May 2021, 9:35 am by Jon Katz
As a Virginia criminal lawyer, I am thankful that former police officer Freitag's deceit has been uncovered, but also know that solving his misdeeds does not solve nor prevent other police officers from committing misdeeds unless systemic and attitudinal change comes through such approaches as shrinking the criminal "justice" system (for instance through reducing the overcriminalized statutes and reducing the numbers of police in order to have better quality law enforcement… [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 1:47 pm by David Lat
[Dealbreaker] * The Second Circuit puts a stop to a legal challenge to the stop-and-frisk settlement. [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 3:30 am by David Markus
Johnson on whether a police officer was entitled to seized ammunition and a holster from Johnson's pocked after he felt something during a Terry frisk. [read post]