Stop-and-Frisk App Users on the Rise
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By Julia Chance of The Root
The Android tool for recording police wrongdoing has taken off since its release last week.
On June 6 the New York Civil Liberties Union rolled out its Stop and Frisk Watch smartphone app, a tool that lets bystanders record and report unlawful police encounters.
Since its debut, more than 75,000 people have downloaded it, and thousands of videos have been submitted. “Our staff is monitoring the videos as they come in,” NYCLU spokeswoman Jennifer Carnig told The Root. The clips will then become an active part of the organization’s campaign to end stop and frisk — the policy in which New York City police can interrogate and search residents without cause. The images will be included in the group’s public-education, communications and lobbying efforts and may also be used to litigate cases against officers.
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