Judge rules New York’s stop and frisk a constitutional violation

“But this reasoning is flawed because the stopped population is overwhelmingly innocent, not criminal.”

The ruling is a victory for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York group that filed a class-action lawsuit seeking federal oversight of stop and frisk.

“Today is a victory for all New Yorkers,” it said in a statement. “After more than five million stops conducted under the current administration, hundreds of thousands of them illegal and discriminatory, the New York Police Department has finally been held accountable,” it added.
“It is time for the city to stop denying the problem and work with the community to fix it.”

Copyright 2013 AFP

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