‘Stop and Frisk’ Leads to Shouting Match at Hearing

‘Stop and Frisk’ Leads to Shouting Match at Hearing


From NY Daily News

The controversial ‘Stop and Frisk‘ policy was being reviewed at a City Council hearing this past Wednesday leading to heated arguments amongst some council members.

The policy, which lends itself to the profiling of minorities, has led to a divide within the City Council.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. who is in charge of the Public Safety Committee held the hearing. Vallone and Councilman Robert Jackson argued after Jackson played a tape of an NYPD officer calling a Harlem teenager a “mutt.”

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