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NAACP head: Even some in NYPD oppose stop-and-frisk

Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial

Photo credit: Getty Images | Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy rally in the Bronx. (Jan. 27, 2012)

The head of the NAACP said Sunday that even some members of the New York Police Department oppose the city's policy of street stops, with mostly minorities being questioned.

Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn that the civil rights group is hearing from its members...

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