January 10, 2018 06:23 am PST
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New York City's Right to Know Act requires cops to record people's explicit consent to warrantless stop-and-frisks
You could write books about the evils of "broken windows" policing and its handmaiden, stop-and-frisk searches (this is a rather good one, in fact), and few places have been more prolific in the racist pursuit of this policy than New York City, where walking-while-brown is a one-way ticket to being stopped, searched, even stripped, all without a warrant or any particularized suspicion. (more…)
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