What the Next NYC Police Commissioner Could Mean for Stop-and-Frisk Culture

Published December 6, 2013

What The Next NYC Police Commissioner Could Mean For Stop-And-Frisk Culture

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And he endorsed eliminating the 100-to-1 disparity between sentences for crack cocaine, more common among African Americans, and powder cocaine. (The Fair Sentencing Act ultimately reduced that disparity to 18-to-1.) He told the New York Times in … Read more on ThinkProgress

'Outright lie,' Rob Ford says of new allegations in court document

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Both the attorney general and community safety minister echoed similar sentiments, but expressed confidence in police and the legal system. After months of denials Ford finally admitted in late October to smoking crack cocaine in one of his “drunken … Read more on Macleans.ca (blog)

Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford 'tried to buy own crack video'

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Rumours of the video broke back in May, after law enforcement officers carrying out an investigation into an alleged drugs gang using wiretaps heard the mayor's name mentioned. The mayor said he was “in a drunken stupor” when he was filmed smoking … Read more on The Independent