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Daily Archives: February 19, 2009
New NYPD data shows record number of stop-and-frisks in 12-month period
New data from the New York City Police Department shows the final total of stop-and-frisks for 2008 to be a record 531,159. Over 80 percent of them were of Black and Latino New Yorkers.
Attorney General Eric Holder: ‘A nation of cowards’
We need to confront our racial past - and our racial present. In things racial, we have always been and continue to be essentially a nation of cowards. This Department of Justice, as long as I am here, must - and will - lead the nation to the "new birth of freedom."