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Mayor Bloomberg Gloating over Spike in Shooting Incidents…?

Friday, October 4, 2013 at 5:27 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Last August, Manhattan federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices are unconstitutional because they routinely violated the Fourth-Amendment protection of Blacks and Hispanics against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, the sight of dark-skinned men being stopped and frisked (invariably by White cops) had become as much a feature of life in… Read more.

Ending Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Reforming Stop and Frisk…

Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 7:52 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Mandatory Minimums Nothing betrays the latter-day puritanism that governs so much of life in America quite like the hundreds of thousands of people who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons for using drugs… For decades I have been among those calling for decriminalizing non-violent, victimless crimes [like using drugs or selling sex]. Unfortunately this progressive… Read more.