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Note: These stories are from Represent and its sister publication, YCteen, which is written by New York City public high school students.
Max is arrested for no good reason. He spends 24 hours behind bars and ends up feeling kidnapped by prejudiced cops.
Linda questions whether the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy does more harm than good. (full text)
The author cuts school to go to the park with a new group of friends. There, the friends have a run-in with the police, and the author wonders if he's hanging out with the wrong crowd.
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Despite a shooting outside her apartment that endangers her aunt, DeAnna's family does not report the incident to the police. "Snitching" goes against the unwritten code of living in the hood—not only will you lose respect from the community, but you could become a target for retaliation.
According to police records, the NYPD stopped 508,540 pedestrians in 2006 for questioning or frisking. The vast majority of those stopped were black or Latino, and 90% weren’t found to be doing anything wrong. Sidebar to previous article.
Getting stopped by the police is common in minority neighborhoods, but when 50 kids get arrested in Bushwick, Brooklyn just for walking down the street, they decide to take action. Helped by an activist curriculum at their alternative school, they successfully sue the police.
In 1998, the police department took over school safety in New York City schools from Dept. of Education staff. Some like the idea, but others feel it creates a prison atmosphere that violates student rights. One critic, the NYCLU, is suing the city to change the policy and remove police from the schools.
Natalie’s faith in her newly adopted country is temporarily shaken by police mistreatment of a Haitian man.
Police and teens describe how young people should conduct themselves if they are stopped by the police.
Natalie attends a Haitian rally protesting the torture of Abner Louima and feels a new sense of pride in her culture.
When Rance and his friends decide to talk to the cops who are trailing them instead of running away, they get frisked and verbally abused.
Julio interviews teens, advocates, and a former police lieutenant about the mistrust and brutality between cops and kids.
Nicole wins an essay contest on the police and gets to be honorary captain of her local precinct for a day. The visit gives her an inside look at how the police operate as well as renewed respect for them.
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