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The End of Stop-and-Frisk as We Know It (Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly lost big: a federal court ruling and a new law ban the racial profiling that undergirds the discriminatory practice.

Mychal Denzel Smith

Ending Stop-and-Frisk for Good (The Gilded City, Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

How the New York City Council’s Community Safety Act stands the best chance of curtailing the NYPD’s most destructive racial profiling practices.

Ross Tuttle and Stephen Maing

Did Racial Profiling Put an Unarmed Black Man in Jail in North Carolina? (Racism and Discrimination, Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

Activists in Durham, North Carolina, have come together in support of Carlos Riley Jr. and against the racial policing they believe has put him behind bars.

Prashanth Kamalakanthan

The Monsterization of Trayvon Martin (Racism and Discrimination, Trayvon Martin, Profiling)

How George Zimmerman’s lawyers exploited racist stereotypes to justify the fear—and killing—of black men.

Patricia J. Williams

Jumaane Williams: Voices for Trayvon Martin (Racism and Discrimination, Trayvon Martin, Profiling)

From Stand-Your-Ground to Stop-and-Frisk.

VideoNation

Political Violence and Privilege (Racism and Discrimination, Increased Security After 9-11, Profiling)

Why violent right-wing extremism doesn’t scare Americans.

Matthew Harwood

A Bold Progressive Vision for the New York City Council (Really!) (The Gilded City, Immigration, Profiling, Politics)

Council members are working on an agenda that includes labor organizing, public transportation and giving legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections.

Brad Lander

Did the NYPD Entrap Ahmed Ferhani? (Increased Security After 9-11, Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.

John Knefel

Dean Spade: Why the Law Is Not Enough (Feminism, Gender and Sexuality, Law, Profiling)

Our civil rights discourse must address the ways our institutions systemically oppress certain communities.

Laura Flanders

The NYPD Caught on Tape (Police and Law Enforcement, Profiling)

While Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly defend stop-and-frisk, a damning video is fueling the fight for police accountability in New York City.

The Editors

Blogs

Not a Game: How the NYPD Uses Sports for Surveillance

Dave Zirin

The NYPD’s extensive monitoring of Arab and South Asian sports events has put a big question mark over the reasoning behind the department’s own sponsored leagues.

September 10, 2013

A Lesson on Racism for Mayor Bloomberg

Mychal Denzel Smith

The outgoing mayor called a Democratic candidate’s campaign racist. Here’s why he’s wrong.

September 9, 2013

New York City Council Overrides Bloomberg's Veto of the Community Safety Act

Francis Reynolds

The two bills of the act will create an inspector general position to monitor the NYPD and expand categories of New Yorkers protected against profiling.

August 22, 2013

Ending Stop-and-Frisk, Keeping the Racism

Mychal Denzel Smith

The signature policy of the NYPD has been declared unconstitutional, but the racism that provided the justification for it is still alive and well.

August 13, 2013

Secret Recording of Stop-and-Frisk Makes it to Federal Court

Francis Reynolds

A federal judge's ruling calls the NYPD's controversial practice unconstitutional and racially discriminatory.

August 13, 2013

Domestic Violence and George Zimmerman's Defense

Salamishah Tillet

George Zimmerman's prior violence against girls and women was an overlooked and unchecked predictor of his killing of Trayvon Martin.