NY group charges, and police deny, racial profiling
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Black and Latino New Yorkers are far more likely to be stopped and frisked by police and a court should put a stop to this "racial profiling," a rights group said in a lawsuit on Thursday.
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The city's police department, tarnished in the past by charges of brutality and racism, is defending itself against fresh criticism over how often officers decide whom to stop and search on the streets.
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The Los Angeles Police Department is experimenting with facial-recognition software it says will help identify suspects, but civil liberties advocates say the technology raises privacy concerns and may not identity people accurately.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they used a mistaken translation of a key piece of evidence last week in a terror case against two Muslims from Albany, New York.
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About 200 people have been arrested during a day of protest against President George W Bush in the city of New York. Police say most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct and occurred away from the march.
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. - A New York City man accused of leaving an inadequate tip at a restaurant was arrested, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot...
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"We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight and that created a really bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."  British police could get powers to stop and question anyone in the UK under proposed tough new anti-terror laws. via Boston Today
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ederal and city officials said yesterday they had arrested scores of immigrants in New York City, who were facing possible deportation to their home countries because of their convictions in sex crimes.
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New York police consider self-described anarchists the unknown factor in whether the Republican convention demonstrations remain under control.
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday his office has subpoenaed Facebook, accusing the social networking site of not keeping young users safe from sexual predators and not responding to user complaints.
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A federal magistrate drops charges against three Palestinian-American men who were arrested after buying large numbers of pre-paid cell phones. The judge said there wasn't enough evidence to bring them to trial. Lawyers for the men said they were victims of ethnic profiling.
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Â· Brother of dissident group founder held in Vilnius  Â· Irish police carry out searches in Dundalk area
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Republican students in New York spark claims of racism with a game called "Find the Illegal Immigrant".
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Monday his office is investigating Facebook, accusing the popular social networking website of not keeping young users safe from sexual predators and not responding to user complaints.
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Rights group 'uncovers bid to skew poll' but attorney general denies recorded voice is his
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A high-profile arrest may signal the start of a crackdown. But some claim the campaign is more political than legal
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The New York Police Department has hired the RAND Corp. to examine its stop-and-frisk policy for evidence of racial bias after statistics surfaced showing more than a half-million pedestrians were searched last year.