Special police units don’t keep the peace — they keep people terrified
, a civil rights attorney and founder and executive director of DC Justice Lab, a nonprofit that advocates “community-rooted” public safety revisions.But “they’re out there,” said Sulton, who hears from scores of Black D.C. residents who have outrageous stories of being stopped and frisked.
The numbers show that 72.83 percent of the people stopped by police since March 2018 — that’s 245,701 stops — were Black, in a city that’s 45.8 percent Black.“It’s the jump-out cars you have to watch out for,” a young boy told Seema Sadanandan in 2013, when she just joined the American Civil Liberties Union and was talking to kids at the Kenilworth Housing Development in Washington.
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