Stop And Frisk

Roland Martin and NewsOne Now discuss Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's remarks regarding race, policing, and healing the racial divide.

Massachusetts' high court says there's nothing suspicious about a Black man fleeing the cops. The justices threw out a conviction based on that premise.

It came as no surprise to some African-Americans this week when news broke that a former aide to President Richard M. Nixon developed anti-drug policies that targeted Black people.

About a dozen Black NYPD officers filed a lawsuit against their department claiming they were pressured to implement racism in their practices.

Freeway Ricky Ross, 55,  the former Los Angeles kingpin that ruled the country at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, was arrested last week on suspicion of possessing drug money, the New York Daily News report. According to the News, Ross was in possession of over $100,000 at the time of his arrest in […]

New York Police Department lawyers and city lawyers are allegedly engaging in a “stunning pattern” of evidence destruction in a class-action case that accuses officers of issuing 850,000 bogus summonses to meet quotas, The New York Daily News exclusively reports. Amid damning evidence obtained by a whistleblower, city lawyers reportedly have failed to release emails from […]

Law enforcement officers in Missouri were 75 percent more likely to stop Black drivers than White drivers last year, and 73 percent more likely to search Black drivers, according to The New York Times. The data also confirmed longstanding complaints by activists that while Blacks were more likely to be stopped and searched than Whites, […]

Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports the Chicago Tribune. The allegation comes in a suit filed on behalf of six African-American men from the South and West Sides and seeks class-action status against the city, police […]

President Barack Obama will be leaving office on a high note. According to a new CNN/ORC poll, his approval rating has increased amongst Americans. For the first time in nearly two years, more people say they look at President Obama in a positive light. Forty-eight percent of Americans believe he’s doing a good job, while […]

In a shocking report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union, Chicago police officers targeted mostly Blacks in a practice that has come to be widely known as stop-and-frisk, reports the Chicago Tribune. The report says police stopped 250,000 civilians — a much higher rate over the summer than New York City officers at […]

Fear of the Ebola virus has spread to the halls of higher education, spurring decisions to shun Africans in the name of safety.  According to reports, officials at the University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg disinvited 14 journalists from African countries who were slated to visit the school as a part of the Edward R. Murrow […]

William Bratton will return as police commissioner to America’s largest city, reports the New York Daily News. He last led New York City’s police department in the 1990s, and has also headed Los Angeles’ force. Bratton, 66, was named the new commissioner Thursday at the Red Hook Justice Community Center by incoming Mayor Bill de […]