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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
The NYCLU released an app called “Stop and Frisk Watch.”
Believe you are witnessing an unlawful police stop and want to record the moment? There’s an app for that, courtesy of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The group released a free smartphone application on Wednesday that allows people to record videos of and report police “stop and frisk” activity, a practice widely denounced by civil rights groups as unjustified stops that they say mostly target minorities and almost never results in an arrest.
The appl was thoroughly criticized by the New York Police Department, which said that the tool might prove useful for criminals.
The “Stop and Frisk Watch” phone app is meant for bystanders watching a police stop, not those subject to it, the NYCLU said. Now available on Android phones, an iPhone version will launch later in the summer. It comes in English and Spanish.
“Stop and Frisk Watch is about empowering individuals and community groups to confront abusive, discriminatory policing,” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman said in a statement. “The NYPD’s own data shows that the overwhelming majority of people subjected to stop-and-frisk are black or Latino, and innocent of any wrongdoing. At a time when the [Mayor Mike] Bloomberg administration vigorously defends the status quo, our app will allow people to go beyond the data to document how each unjustified stop further corrodes trust between communities and law enforcement.”
The recording and report will be sent to the civil liberties group, which will collect the information. One of the app’s three main functions is called “listen,” in which users can learn when and where people around them are being stopped. This would be useful for community groups monitoring police activity, the NYCLU said in a statement.
New York City police stopped and questioned people 685,724 times in 2011, a more than 600 percent increase in street stops since 2002 — Bloomberg’s first year in office — when there were 97,296 stops, the group said in a statement. Of that, 87 percent were black or Latino, and nine out of every 10 of the people who were stopped were not arrested or ticketed.
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The “stop and frisk” practice has been the subject of many protests in the city, and one of the focuses of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The NYCLU said it developed the app with Jason Van Anden, a Brooklyn-based visual artist and software developer who also created an Occupy Wall Street app, “I’m Getting Arrested.”
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne denounced the app, saying criminals would find it “useful” because it would alert them to where police stops were happening. He also raised concerns about privacy issues and the rights of those being filmed, noting the group was de facto creating a “database of videos of individuals stopped by police.”
“It’s one thing when providers learn what pizza or movies you like. It’s another to create a database of stops and arrests by police,” he said in an email statement. “On the plus side, the videos may capture images of suspects in the vicinity of a stop and be helpful to the police in that regard. Presumably, the NYCLU database will the names of the videographers and provide a rich vein of potential witnesses to crimes being investigated by the NYPD and other authorities.”
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If the Police are doing their job correctly, they have nothing to hide or fear…..
Somebody got ti watch them! They watchin Us all the time!
need something to help stop abuse glad we dont need for the heros firemen and paramedics they are still doing there job
Dear Police, if you do the abuse, there’s no excuse. Stop raping the Constitution you swore to defend. If you do, our country will mend.
That’s what we need. Let’s see just how much we can tie the hands of law enforcement and see how many more can lose their lives on the job.
The app won’t capture what led to the stop and frisk and cause the police suspicions. I’ll bet the increase was mostly high crime areas to
Some idiot will post on YouTube, lawsuits will ensue, then the NYCLU will look like the a$$es they are. (if it looks like a horse…)
It would be nice if it works. Sadly, since cops will know about it, they’re more likely to confiscate bystanders’ phones.
the cops will just confiscate your phone like they already do and/or arrest you to make you stop .
The police have nothing to fear from being filmed, unless they are doing something they dont want the public to see.
Who cares.., phones can take video even without the app
I live in CA. We have daily instantaneous of police abusing their authority. Someone needs to defend these people.
Anything that keeps citizens, and police honest is a step in the right direction. I don’t like stops for money arrests.
Officers need to know what the rules are and understand that they might be recorded; they also need 2 know it is not against the law.
As long as the police are doing nothing wrong, the police should have no problem with this app. The police are not above the law.
Cops are human and subject to imperfection. If they watch us, we need to watch them. Not Big Brother, but everyone watching everyone else
COPS ARE CORRUPT AND OBVOUSLY NEED BABYSITTING. cops are not honest nor are they trust worthy of anything, protect,serve and LIE.
May help raise awareness of this abuse of government power.
Anything that provides oversight of police is a good thing. Nothing the police do on the street should be immune from public view.
Sure, for the usual whiners
Officer, one moment please before you start, I need to turn on my new app so it will record what you say..
Big Brother dosen’t like it when someone is watching him…Thats a good thing
Police are out of control, and we must exercise our first ammendment rights to protect our fourth ammendment rights.
Aggressive, militarized police are the top threat to freedom and democracy in this country.
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