Matthew McKnight writes about a case challenging the N.Y. Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy: “The relationship between law enforcement and communities that the N.Y.P.D. has determined contain high concentrations of crime—thus requiring a heightened police presence—is a complicated, quarrelsome one”: http://nyr.kr/Zy8Rsb

Here, see a selection of photojournalist Nina Berman’s work documenting community outrage around the N.Y.P.D.’s controversial stop-&-frisk policy: http://nyr.kr/NWEGWY

(Source: newyorker.com)

In this week’s issue of the magazine, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Dapper Dan, a designer who co-opted luxury-brand logos out of his Harlem boutique, creating one-of-a-kind outfits for hip-hop artists, rappers, and gangsters in the eighties. The photographers of the day, like Janette Beckman, Glen E. Friedman, and Paul Natkin, captured Dapper Dan’s custom outfits. Click-through for a slideshow: http://nyr.kr/ZHROm8

Sasha Frere-Jones weighs in on Baauer and the “Harlem Shake” phenomenon sweeping the web: It “is not a dance craze but, rather, an Internet-language craze, a replication based on imitating the syntax of a particular video. With other dance crazes, you could use whatever music you liked and twerk or do the dougie, but you did have to get those dances roughly right to be part of the phenomenon.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/VVaRwp

(Source: newyorker.com)