On Thursday, less than 24 hours before the Mayor of Philadelphia was scheduled to speak at the Police Recruits’ graduation, a bombshell story was published on Philly.com that shed light on the practice of police officers, when performing a stop-and-frisk, reaching into the underwear of their subjects to search for contraband. The invasive-ness of the alleged searches, an act which the police commissioner denied having knowledge of, is illegal.
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