Justice
The Baltimore Police Department Is Having Its Own Stop-and-Frisk Scandal
New York's not the only city with a stop-and-frisk program, or a stop-and-frisk problem.
The Baltimore Police Department found itself in the hot seat this week over its stop-and-frisk policy. The controversy started on Monday, when the Baltimore Police Department announced it would no longer use the term "stop-and-frisk," due to the "negative connotations" associated with the NYPD's use of the phrase. But according to reporting by the Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton, the change would be in name only:
The perception that the department was changing the name, but not its policy, drew a scathing response from the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland: