Stop-And-Frisk – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:34:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 NYPD Officers Now Required to Issue Receipts During Stop-And-Frisk Attempts https://www.melanoidnation.org/nypd-officers-now-required-to-issue-receipts-during-stop-and-frisk-attempts/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/nypd-officers-now-required-to-issue-receipts-during-stop-and-frisk-attempts/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:33:05 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2579 For the entirety of its existence, the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy has been deemed highly questionable and controversial in the way that it targets Melanoid people in New York City.  According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, the first half of 2015 saw New Yorkers getting stopped by the police 13,604 times, with 11,124 of them being totally innocent. 7,158 of the people stopped were Black.

In what appears to be an attempt to curb such a heavy trend in NYC, police are now required to give a slip with a title that reads “What Is A Stop?” to the people they stop for questioning. As of Sept. 21st, NYPD cops will no longer be able to stop-and-frisk a person because they “look nervous or suspicious”. Stop-and-frisk is an ongoing problem that has even caused long-term trauma among Melanoid people who were targeted by this policy. Watch the following video to see the report about the debilitating affects of stop-and-frisk on Black Society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzxfDViRlJ0

Here’s a link to the story.

B. Clark

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