The recently formed Racial Disparities Review Committee comes nearly 13 years after a federal judge ruled that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the nation’s largest police force violated the constitutional rights of minorities.
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Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2026
Under Hegseth, however, nearly two dozen top officers have been fired or sidelined, many of whom are women or minorities, with no public explanation of such radical disruptions.
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