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Federal Judge Grants Class Action Status for NYPD Stop and Frisk...
A federal judge on Wednesday granted class-action status to a lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, saying she was disturbed by the city’s “deeply troubling apathy towards New Yorkers’ most fundamental...
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Working Undercover Under Strain
Of the 120 or so undercover officers in the Organized Crime Control Bureau, which runs most of the department’s undercover operations, there is widespread dissatisfaction among the ranks, according to interviews with nearly a dozen current or...
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Three Black Detectives Accuse Unit of Treating Blacks Like ‘Animals’
Top supervisors of an elite NYPD anti-gun unit allegedly handled white suspects with kid gloves while treating blacks like “animals” deserving of a bullet to the head. The explosive charges appear in sworn depositions from three members of the...
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Former Black Warehouseman Says Working at D’Arrigo Bros. Was No ‘Bowl...
New York Civil Rights Attorney Eric Sanders, Esq., of The Sanders Firm, P.C., alleges in a federal lawsuit that D’Arrigo Bros. Co. of New York, Inc., fostered a hostile work environment by ignoring and condoning racially offensive behavior in the...
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Are Employers Violating Civil Rights Laws by Requesting Your Facebook Password?
A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to a cause of action. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, press, and assembly; the right to vote; freedom from involuntary servitude; and...
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NYPD Football Cops Going to Trial
Two female NYPD officers’ disciplined for tossing football with young boy while on their post are now heading to Trial. "This is yet another colossal waste of Department Resources" says Eric Sanders. "The Department needs to rethink its...
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