Stop and Frisk Law

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich (pictured) appeared on “Face the Nation,” applauding former New York City mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg for the policing strategies they help put in place. The former failed Republican presidential candidate also suggested that President Barack Obama also fueled racial tensions in this country and […]

A planned “silent march” organized by civil rights leaders and supporters to protest the use of an aggressive and racially motivated policing tactic took place on Father’s Day Sunday without incident but left a powerful image of solidarity among several key groups. The “End Stop And Frisk: Silent March Against Racial Profiling” was helmed primarily […]

Last week, civil rights leaders gathered for a teleconference to announce an upcoming march aimed to call attention to the racially charged and controversial practice of the “Stop-And-Frisk” law, a New York measure supposedly crafted to curtail crime. Critics of Stop and Frisk have deduced that the law is nothing more than a mask for […]