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The New York Times' David Sirota made the following note for his coverage of the New York City Police Department's controversial "stop and frisk" policy: "For many months, the NYPD's policy on what a suspect is allowed to say and do has been that if it is not his name, it has nothing to do with his race or religion. The New York Times will not be surprised to find out that Mr. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who now has taken a stand against racial profiling, does not like this policy."

Sirota's column, published by the New York Times, was written on January 8, 2013.

This was the first time Sirota had written about the NYPD's "stop and frisk" policy. According to Sirota, it is "a policy that violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures in the name of the Fourth Amendment." The policy was recently adopted by the New York State Police—the state's police department that has in the past taken over policing from the NYPD.

If the New York Times is right, that means that the NYPD's policy on what a suspect is allowed to say and do, in the name of the Fourth Amendment, has been violated.