Suit: NYPD conducting illegal stops in private buildings

[IDemo]

By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 15:11 EDT

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Wednesday, alleging that in addition to stopping primarily black and Latino residents in public spaces as part of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program, officers are illegally searching people in private buildings.

According to a press release, the NYCLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of residents whose buildings are apart of “Operation Clean Halls,” an agreement by the NYPD and a landlord that grants officers permission to patrol inside a building at any time.

NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman cited how minorities have been largely affected by the NYPD’s program.

“Operation Clean Halls has placed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, mostly black and Latino, under siege in their own homes,” Lieberman said. “For residents of Clean Halls buildings, taking the garbage out or checking the mail can result in being thrown against the wall and humiliated by police.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/suit-nypd-conducting-illegal-stops-in-private-buildings/

[KansDem]

1. Of course the NYPD is illegally searching black and Latino residents.

They need a large pool from which to arrest innocent people!

Friday, March 09, 2012
NYPD -- arrest innocent people to boost arrest rates; ignore real crimes to depress crime rates

The Village Voice newspaper (of New York City) reports today on a secret internal NYPD study that verifies the claims of former Officer Adrian Schoolcraft about command direction in a Bedford-Stuyvesant precinct to make bogus arrests and ignore real crimes, previously reported in a 5-part series in The Village Voice. Schoolcraft knew this was wrong and illegal and refused to go along. He was ostracized by the department.

In October 31, 2009, top officials of the NYPD broke into Schoolcraft's apartment and forcibly took him to a hospital to fraudulently build a case that he was mentally ill.

After The Village Voice reported this story, the Commissioner ordered an internal investigation. The result of that investigation was suppressed and kept secret for almost two years.

Listen to the 41 minute story about his case on This American Life public radio program. It is a stunning indictment of command mismanagement at NYPD.

Schoolcraft and his attorney have established a website encouraging officers to report command misconduct, etc.

http://justiceanddrugs.blogspot.com/2012/03/nypd-arrest-innocent-people-to-boost.html

[fascisthunter]

2. WTF!

[X_Digger]

3. Fuck the NYPD and their authoritarian crap..

Here are some other links..

http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

[div class='excerpt']In 2011, 685,724 New Yorkers were stopped by the police.
605,328 were totally innocent (88 percent).
350,743 were black (53 percent).
223,740 were Latino (34 percent).
61,805 were white (9 percent).
341,581 were aged 14-24 (51 percent).

And if that doesn't chap your ass, here's another one..

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/all/

(That one, and the linked articles are a looooooong read, but well worth it.)

[marasinghe]

4. as is the wont in such cases, the overt racism rampant in Giuliani time ....

went underground; and came back with a smiling facade & veneer of civility, under the urbane Bloomberg regime. same modus operandi as the Bushwipe/Cheney gang being replaced by the Mittens-Newt-Santorum circus.

but the racism and the generalized bullying & thuggery, is alive and flourishing -- though disguised from New Yorkers ken. all one has to do, is go through the NCLU stats you provided, or the accounts of the OWS protestors being manhandled & banged around, and the situation is obvious.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. yep. it's awful.

[Dawson Leery]

6. "F" the NYPD and the overtly corrupt Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.