The New York City Police Department has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming officers are engaging in “stop-and-frisk on wheels.”
The department is accused of using traffic stops to target and humiliate tens of thousands of Black and Brown New Yorkers without cause, but the NYPD says their enforcement is data-driven.
NYPD accused of racially discriminatory car searches
The NAACP of New York and two Black New Yorkers are suing the NYPD over what they call “widespread, unconstitutional use of racially discriminatory vehicle searches.”
“The searches are not driven by the evidence. They’re driven by racial bias,” New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said…