Stop-and-Frisk: The World According to Questlove

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Aug 17, 2013 Hip-hop hit a milestone this week, turning 40 years old. The same week, Federal District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, in a 195-page ruling, declared the New York Police Department’s practice of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Tactics Ruled Unconstitutional

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 12, 2013 A federal judge ruled Monday that controversial "stop-and-frisk" searches -- carried out by New York City police officers on predominantly black and Latino residents -- are unconstitutional, and ordered that an independent, federal monitor be brought in to oversee reform. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama’s Terror Campaign

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 22, 2013 The president maintains a "global system of kidnapping, torture, rape and murder" to demoralize and coerce those who would oppose the American-led neoliberal empire, political economist Rob Urie writes in CounterPunch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Frisking History for Some Insights on Racism

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 21, 2012 In an urgent and informed discussion on race relations spanning America’s early history to the stop-and-frisk policies of the present, author, historian and New York Public Library research director Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells Bill Moyers how the nation’s laws were written to control black Americans. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alexander Cockburn’s Amerika

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 7, 2012 Two percent of the U.S. adult population in lockup; 600,000 “stop-and-frisks” in New York City; three-quarters of a million people booked as official sex offenders. Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn thinks it's time we revisit the notion of “fascism.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

High Time to Decriminalize in New York

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 5, 2012 In response to an inflated arrest rate under the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the police chief have endorsed legislation put forward by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would ease the penalty for possessing small amounts of marijuana in public. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cornel West Arrested at OWS in Harlem

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2011 Princeton University professor Cornel West was among a few dozen protesters arrested at a solidarity march in New York on Friday as OWS activists locked arms with members of progressive groups in front of a Harlem police station. The crowd of a couple of hundred was protesting the practice of "stop-and-frisk," which allows officers to stop and search city residents on the street. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pat-Downs Hit Middle America Where It Counts

David Coleman / Truthdig Nov 25, 2010 What has emerged from the TSA pat-down kerfuffle is recognition that it is psychologically demeaning to be subjected to physical touching of private areas of the body by someone not invited to do so. Now, the psychological treatment of men of color is being brought home to middle American men.The recent outrage expressed by white males and females over intrusive airport pat-downs may have an upside. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )