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The is giving smart phones a social conscience. This week, we unveiled Stop and Frisk Watch 鈥� a new smart phone app that will empower New Yorkers to hold the NYPD accountable for unlawful, abusive street stops and other misconduct.

鈥� available in English and Spanish for Android phones 鈥� allows bystanders to document stop-and-frisk encounters and alert community members when a street stop is in progress. Easy to use, it has three main functions:

路 Record: Users can film a police encounter with audio by pushing a trigger on the phone鈥檚 frame. When filming stops, the user immediately receives a brief survey allowing them to provide details about the incident. The video and survey is sent to the NYCLU.

路 Listen: This function alerts users when someone in their vicinity is being stopped by the police. When other app users in the area trigger the app, the user receives a message reporting where the police stop is happening. It鈥檚 especially useful for community groups that monitor police activity.

路 Report: This prompts the survey, allowing users to report a police interaction they saw or experienced, even if they didn鈥檛 film it.

The app includes a 鈥淜now Your Rights鈥� section that instructs people about their rights and their right to film police activity in public.

The NYPD鈥檚 own data shows that each year police stop and frisk hundreds of thousands of innocent Black and Latino New Yorkers. Last year, NYPD officers stopped and interrogated people 685,724 times, in street stops since Mayor Bloomberg鈥檚 first year in office. Nine out of 10 of people stopped were innocent, meaning they were neither arrested nor ticketed. 老澳门开奖结果 87 percent were Black or Latino.

An NYCLU analysis showed that Black and Latino males between the ages of 14 and 24 accounted for 41.6 percent of stops in 2011, though they make up only 4.7 percent of the city鈥檚 population. The number of stops of young Black men exceeded the city鈥檚 entire population of young Black men. (The NYCLU鈥檚 full analysis of the NYPD鈥檚 2011 stop-and-frisk data is available .)

The videos and surveys we collect through Stop and Frisk Watch will go beyond the data to illustrate how this humiliating and abusive tactic corrodes trust between police and communities. This will help us fight for change.

An iPhone version is coming this summer. For more information on Stop and Frisk Watch and to download it to your phone, visit .

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