We recently visited the NYCLU. They are a organization that mainly focuses on police brutality, stop and frisk and knowing your rights. Stop and frisk has become a very large problem in New York. Ever since the start of the Bloomberg association stops and increased by 600%. When you are stopped and frisked the police will question and search you. The thing is very little people know that you can say no to these searches. Because you have rights. We were told how students often don’t know how to exercise rights or even what their rights are. The NYCLU has programs that help people learn their rights because due to “stop and frisk” knowing your rights has become a key part to surviving in New York.. The NYCLU has taken many “stop and frisk” cases to court because everyone on staff thinks that it is important. From the NYCLU we learned about Stop and Frisk and realized that it was an important issue, because of them stop and frisk has become more of an important issue. While we continue to work on both of these issues working for students like us to have equal rights is our main goal. The people at the NYCLU were very nice , they are also always happy to come to schools so they could come to LREI. I think that if someone were to come it would be a great honor and a very good opportunity .
