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You are the target of stop-and-frisk, not some mythical ‘other person’
In 2011, the New York Police Department stopped and frisked 700,000 people in a city of 8.2 million — that’s about 8.6 percent of the population, if you’re a numbers person — and 87 percent of those people who were stopped were African-American or Latino. About 45 percent of New…
Mayor Bloomberg plans to outlaw super-sized sodas
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he plans to outlaw super-sized sugary drinks, in a ban cementing his reputation as one of America’s hardest-driving policy makers on public health. Bloomberg, who already has gone to war on smokers and transfat, will allow the sale of cups up to 16…
Mayor Bloomberg calls the NYPD ‘my own army’
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said the New York Police Department was like his own personal military force during a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to PolitickerNY. “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world,” he said.…
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