Word: frisking
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...quickly, from 150 undercover officers to nearly 400. Recruits were given only three days of intensive training. The unit belonged to no precinct and was based on one of the islets in the East River, isolated from every borough but having the freedom of the city to search, frisk and arrest. It had been tremendously successful. Though making up less than 2% of the police force, the SCU accounted for more than 20% of the city's gun arrests, reducing the number of weapons by more than 2,000. The murder rate plummeted. But the unit's arrests came...
...many feel that even if the jurors cannot be held accountable, the New York Police Department (NYPD) should be. The NYPD, with its "stop and frisk" tactics, is infamous for its abuses against minorities, the most famous being the case of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant who was sodomized with a toilet plunger while being "interrogated" by the police...