Donald Trump today said something so ridiculous as to stand out against his other remarks—in the middle of an effort to reach out to black voters, he said he plans to enact a nationwide version of stop and frisk, New York’s most embarrassing, racist and ineffective practice.
In 2015, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel assembled an independent task force to investigate city police when protestors demanded he resign around his mishandling—cover-up?—of Lauan McDonald’s fatal shooting by cops, which was captured on video. Now their scathing report is here, detailing how racism led to rampant police…
Tech stalwart Anil Dash did something revolutionary with his Twitter feed in 2013: he only retweeted women for one year. (With the exception of Prince, but, I mean, it’s Prince and he is the international representative for THE LADIES, so I understand.)
Up until very recently ("recently" as in Monday), New York City was one of several large cities with a stop-and-frisk law — a policy in which "a person [could be] temporarily detained on the street against his or her will for the purposes questioning" by police. Stop-and-Frisk has been legal in NYC for the past 11…
New York City police officers aren't taught how to "stop-and-frisk" women differently from men. They say gender is blind when it comes to street stops, but the women in question don't feel the same way.
