Latest Articles Tagged "racial profiling"
CCRB officials say without additional funding, they will have to ask the NYPD to go back to investigating racial profiling complaints in-house.
High Line Hotel workers allegedly barged into his room, "accused" him of being a homeless person and ordered him to leave.
Viral video of a clash between teens at a New Jersey mall and how police responded has sparked a discussion on inequitable policing and opened old wounds in state law enforcement's troubled history with discrimination.
Social media highlighted another example of overpolicing of communities of color, this time in suburban New Jersey.
"They came to the quick conclusion that this was being said to them because they are a group of Black and Latino boys."
The 22-year-old tackled the 14-year-old boy in NYC, insisting he took her iPhone, when she actually left it in an Uber.
'The NYPD continues to this day, to say, look this is not about racial bias, there's no systemic problem here.'
The NYPD never investigated complaints of racial profiling or bias until it was ordered to do so as part of the landmark settlement in a civil-rights suit over its stop-and-frisk policy.
SZA says a Sephora employee called security on her in April, assuming she was stealing products.
A new report on stop and frisk shows that the number of stops have declined dramatically since a federal judge's ruling in 2013. But the racial disparities haven’t budged.