Boston Police need data to evaluate their stop and frisk practices
March 7, 2016 8:20 pm
Our legal director Matt Segal
spoke
to the Associated Press about the Boston Police Department's exaggerat
ed claims of
reduced racial discrimination in stops and frisks
, based on recently released data.
Matthew R. Segal
Information about the reasons and outcomes of the stops is crucial to understanding whether police are conducting searches appropriately and not violating civil rights, says Matthew Segal, legal director for the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which had sued the department to release the data.
"Without that additional information, police cannot even measure whether its stop-and-frisk practices are achieving worthwhile goals," he said.
Read the full article:
AP finds Boston police inflate progress on searches, frisks
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