A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report.

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A suburban New York police department regularly violated civil rights by making illegal arrests and conducting illegal strip and cavity searches, the Department of Justice said in a new report.The report, released Thursday, identified that the Mount Vernon Police Department used excessive force in numerous ways, including by unnecessarily escalating minor encounters and overusing tasers and closed-fist strikes, particularly against people who we…

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Suburban New York police agency made illegal arrests, strip searched nearly every arrestee: DOJ

The department conducted illegal strip searches until at least 2023, according to an investigation. However,  the practice may have continued.

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New York Cops Conducted Fully Nude Strip Search on Every Person They Arrested — And Many They Didn't: DOJ

Source: Douglas Sacha / Getty   2024 might be on it’s way out the door but it’s never too late to hold police officers and their departments accountable for violating their oaths and the civil rights of the citizens their swore to protect. According to new reporting by APNews, the United States Department of Justice has accused the Mount Vernon Police Department of a “pattern and practice” of illegal arrests and illegal strip searches. One such …

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Police in a New York jurisdiction strip-searched every person they arrested, as well as people who were not placed under arrest, according to a Department of Justice report. The illegal searches were part of a more extensive set of rights abuses and illegal activities committed by members of the Mount Vernon Police Department and demonstrate a larger pattern of systemic violations on the part of police forces across the country. Strip searching …

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This New York Police Force Strip-Searched Almost Everyone It Arrested, DOJ Report States

A New York police force regularly violated the civil rights of its residents, including by conducting illegal strip searches, the DOJ said.

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Archyde Federal Inquiry Launched into Mount Vernon Police Department Table of Contents 1. Federal Inquiry Launched into Mount Vernon Police Department 2. Controversial Strip Search Practices 3. Financial Mismanagement Compounds Concerns 4. Troubling Report Exposes Alleged Civil Rights Violations by Mount Vernon Police 5. Police Department Faces Scrutiny Over Pattern of Misconduct 6. Egregious Example of […] You can read the full story here: Subu…

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Suburban New York Police Force Cited for Illegal Arrests, Strip Searches – Archyde

A U.S. Department of Justice report reveals a troubling pattern of civil rights violations by the Mount Vernon Police Department, just north of New York City.  The department, comprising approximately 160 officers, engaged in illegal arrests, strip searches, and cavity searches, with practices persisting until at least 2023. One emblematic case involved the 2020 strip search of two women, aged 65 and 75. Suspected of buying drugs, officers searc…

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Department of Justice Finds NY Police Force Strip Searched Nearly Everyone It Arrested

A suburban police force in New York strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ saysFrom the CNN report:...Illegal strip and cavity searches continued until at least 2023, the report found. The investigators said that while the practice was "curtailed" during its probe, "we are not confident that these practices have ended."
Among a catalog of unconstitutional arrests, the DOJ identified a case where officers took the mother of a shooting vi…

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Mt. Vernon NY PD illegally strip searched nearly all arrested

A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, says a new U.S. Department of Justice report, the Associated Press reports. The study of a pattern and practice of police misconduct at the department in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City, is one of 12 investigations DOJ opened into local policing agencies since 2021, includin…

Mount Vernon, New York, police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says

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