07/16/2010 NY1 News: Governor Signs Legislation Eliminating NYPD's Stop And Frisk Database

07/16/2010 NY1 News: Governor Signs Legislation Eliminating NYPD's Stop And Frisk Database, by: NY1 News

Governor David Paterson signed a bill today making major changes to the New York City Police Department's so-called stop and frisk database.
The new law will prevent police from keeping a database of names and descriptions of people who are stopped but not charged with a crime.
Under the law, police will no longer be able to compile a list of people they stop and frisk that fit the description in a recent crime if there are no supporting witnesses.

"It disallows the use of personal data from innocent people who have not done anything wrong," said the governor. "They may be suspicious, they may be, thought to be future threats. But that is not a policy for democracy. Maybe that might work in Bosnia, maybe that might work in Somalia, maybe it would have worked in the Soviet Union or 1984, but we can't allow it to happen here."

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