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Hiding behind a badge and a flashlight, two officers stop and search vehicle in Harlem. 

Watch full video below

- Hear from the officers as well as the men who were searched.

July 30, 2011 - NYPD officers stop and search the car of 2 men in Harlem.

Joseph "Jazz" Hayden, Founder of allthingsharlem.com films the incident and questions the officers as to why they are searching the man's vehicle. The officers point their flashlights at the camera the majority of the video to hide their faces.

After the stop, the two men who were stopped and searched gave an interview to allthingsharlem.com about how they felt racially profiled and would be filing a complaint with the Civilian Complaint Review Board against the officers.

(NY Daily News) - July 13, 2011.  A Bronx teen said two cops roughed him up when he mouthed off after one of them stepped in a pile of dog doo.Read Full Story

On May 26, 2011 David Jones, CEO of the Community Service Society compared police conduct in NYC to apartheid South Africa. Chief William Morris of NYPD North EVADED the issue in his response.

An interactive map that allows you view stop and frisk statistics block by block. 

The New York Times 

Stop, Question and Frisk in New York Neighborhoods

New York City’s police force, in its fight against crime, has increasingly used a strategy known as “stop, question and frisk,” which allows officers to stop someone based on a reasonable suspicion of crime. One expert has estimated New Yorkers are stopped at twice the national rate. The impact on crime is much debated, and critics contend disproportionate stopping of minorities is a result of racial profiling, which police officials dispute.  - The New York Times

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Also, read the accompanying article and watch the video below on NYPD, stop and frisk tactics at work in Brownsville Brooklyn.

  Inwood residents were outraged by the recent ticketing of chess players at the Inwood Hill Part chess tables.

A group of seven mild-mannered chess players are due in criminal court next month after police officers from the 34th Precinct issued them summonses for playing their favorite board game in Inwood Hill Park. 

The men were ticketed on Oct. 20 for being inside of Emerson Playgroud, a children's play area off limits to adults unaccompanied by minors. But the men were in an area furnished with stone chess and backgammon tables — separated from the play area by a fence. - DNAinfo Read More

What on earth could validate this nonsense?  Is it just because of quotas?  Why bother these men?