Legislation provides ‘transparency, oversight, and accountability’ to prevent police abuse
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2012 | Albor Ruiz
Miguel Adams with Talib Kweli at the Communities United for Police Reform rally.
Fed up with what they believe are discriminatory practices by the NYPD, more than 800 New Yorkers rallied last Thursday at City Hall.
Among other things they called for is an end to stop-and-frisk, which overwhelmingly affects black and Latino youth and has become the most visible example of police discrimination and abuse of power.
“Stop-and-frisk makes youth of color feel like we are criminals and not welcome in our own city,” said Alfredo Carrasquillo of the Brooklyn-based VOCAL-NY, one of the groups that participated in the rally,
The problem is serious enough to demand an urgent solution. During the Bloomberg administration, the New York Police Department stopped more than 4 million people. Yet, nearly 90% of those stops did not result in summons or arrests.
To understand how Carrasquillo and thousands like him feel, one only has to know that 85% of those stopped were of black and Latino.
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