28.05.2015 - 05:39 [ Techdirt ]

Court Shuts Down NYPD‘s Argument That When Searching For Black Male Suspects, Any Black Male Will Do

Racial profiling certainly appears to be a problem for some law enforcement agencies. It‘s not often you hear the government arguing that it should be allowed to profile citizens racially, but that‘s exactly what it did. Unsurprisingly, the government body arguing for the right to search any black male simply because a black male is being sought is the NYPD — an argument which highlights the sort of behavior its „stop and frisk“ program encouraged.