The Rev. Reggie Brooks, pastor of a storefront church in the toughest part of Pottstown, once counted himself as a strong supporter of a police crackdown on the pushers and hoodlums who tormented his neighborhood. »Read story

 

Police patrols are a way of life at Upper Darby school

 

Connections on the streets

 

A charge of 'hanging around'

Documents

 

Norristown loitering ordinance (.pdf)

 

Bristol Twp. loitering ordinance (.pdf)

 

Allentown loitering ordinance (.pdf)

 

"Stop & Frisk" practices in New York City (1999)

Graphics

 

Top U.S. cities for disorderly conduct arrests

 

Pottstown arrests by race

 

Colwyn: Violation already decided

 

Patrolling children in Upper Darby

 

Police Departments out of step with diversity

Videos

 

The Rev. Reggie Brooks, Pottstown

 

Andrew Duncan, Upper Darby

 

Reporter Mark Fazlollah talks about the series

Q & A's

 

David Rudovsky, civil rights and criminal defense lawyer

 

Francis Healy, Philadelphia Police Dept. lawyer

The series

 

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Part 2

 

Part 3

 

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Editorial

 

Profiling in Suburbia

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