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There was a higher incidence of police stopping and frisking Black and brown men.

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“So frisking language might be like, ‘Do you have any needles that might hurt me?’

Since that day, he has waited for Israelis to leave or at least for the creation of an independent Palestinian state where he can live with his seven children and 17 grandchildren without frequent frisking by security forces.

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Despite their training and experience, officers assigned to Neighborhood Safety Teams “overall appear to be stopping, frisking, and searching individuals at an unsatisfactory level of compliance. Too many people are stopped, frisked, and searched unlawfully.”

Monitor Mylan Denerstein said the NYPD’s Neighborhood Safety Teams - special units deployed in the past 14 months to seize guns in high-crime areas - were engaging in “unconstitutional policing” by stopping and frisking too many people without justification.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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