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NYPD Agrees To Purge Names Of Those Stopped And Frisked

By Nicole Flatow The New York Police Department will erase hundreds of thousands of names and addresses it has collected of those stopped and frisked, in a settlement announced Wednesday. Some NYPD data on stop-and-frisks is useful for tracking the breadth of … Continue reading

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Man Posts Drake Lyrics & “Kill All Whites” On Facebook, Gets Arrested For “Terroristic Threat”

By John Del Signore A Far Rockaway man was arrested last week for making a Facebook status update with the hashtag “killallwhites,” which a nervous NYPD interpreted as “making a terroristic threat,” a felony. In the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict, … Continue reading

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Hmmm: Stop & Frisk Has Plummeted, And So Has Crime

By Christopher Robbins The number of stop-and-frisks performed by the NYPD have declined by 51% in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2012. Shootings and murders also dropped by 24% and 40% respectively in … Continue reading

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Commissioner Kelly says almost 75% of violent crime committed by African-Americans

By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly credited the controversial stop-and-frisk tactic for helping to push New York’s crime rate to record lows. In a television interview, New York’s top cop defended his department’s use of the crimefighting tool and … Continue reading

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Dispatch From Brooklyn: Fraying Patience With NYPD’s Protection

By Jamilah King,  Monday, March 18 2013 It’s a Thursday night and East Flatbush is fuming. New York City police officers are stationed at every corner for miles along Church Ave., which is this Brooklyn neighborhood’s main thoroughfare. Traffic clogs … Continue reading

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Random Thoughts

The Catholic Church needs Pope Francis. Jorge Mario Bergoglio knows exactly what he is doing by choosing the name Francis. Pope Francis has already demonstrated by action what type of Pope he wants to be. All Catholics need to learn … Continue reading

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Over 4 Years, Nearly 52,000 Police Stops in a Few Brooklyn Blocks

I was born & raised in New York. I lived in the neighborhood that this article talks about, in fact I was robbed twice in the neighborhood. It has never been the “Garden of Eden” however, there has to be … Continue reading

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