Database

Millions of dollars are confiscated each year by the police, regardless of criminal conviction.

Last Friday Governor Paterson signed legislation ending the NYPD's electronic database

Photograph of Governor Paterson signing legislation to end the stop-and-frisk database

Despite considerable pressure from Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly,

Since everyone loves the online database that maps and gives rap

from Runs With Scissors' flickr Councilmembers are pushing the NYPD to

277 Avenue C in Brooklyn, where responders were first sent, and

While the NYPD continues to rely on old-fashioned stop-and-frisks, the department

More than 85% of people stopped and frisked by the NYPD