ALJAZEERA: A federal judge has ruled that the New York City Police Department’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” crime-fighting tactics violate the US constitution…
The practice has become “a fact of daily life in some New York City neighbourhoods,” [Federal District Judge Shira] Scheindlin said in her ruling. the NYPD’s interest in keeping New York’s crime rate down against black and Latino plaintiffs who felt discriminated against.
The class action was considered the broadest legal challenge to stop-and-frisk, a tactic in which city police stop people they suspect of unlawful activity and frisk those they suspect are carrying weapons… (more)
