ACLU launches “Stop and Frisk” Android App

The ACLU’s NY Chapter has launched the “Stop & Frisk Watch” Android App that will automatically upload smartphone videos of police patdowns to the rights group’s servers.

The app is in response to the New York Police Department having stopped, frisked and interrogated people at least 685,724 times last year alone. About 87 percent of those stopped were black or Latino, and 90 percent of those stopped were neither ticketed nor arrested.

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