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For Women in Street Stops, Deeper Humiliation from The New York Times, 8/6/12

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

The article reports, “When officers conduct stops upon shaky or baseless legal foundations, people of both sexes often say they felt violated. Yet stops of women by male officers can often involve an additional element of embarrassment and perhaps sexual intimidation, according to women who provided their accounts of being stopped by the police.”

View the full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/nyregion/for-women-in-street-stops-deeper-humiliation.html?_r=2&hp