The NYPD faces a state probe over whether it has been illegally targeting people of color in its enforcement of subway fare-evasion laws
New York state Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into whether the New York Police Department has been illegally targeting people of color in its enforcement of fare-evasion laws in the New York City subway, her office said in a statement Monday.
Ms. James, a Democrat, sent a letter to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea asking for fare-evasion and summons data, documents regarding police directives on enforcement and other information that would help determine whether NYPD officers exhibited a racial bias...
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