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Judge rules NYPD's 'stop-and-frisk' policy violates rights
Published August 12, 2013
FoxNews.com
A federal judge ruled Monday that the New York Police Department violated the civil rights of New Yorkers with its broad "stop-and-frisk" policy, in a blow to the Bloomberg administration.
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg has argued that the policy has helped fight crime and save lives, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin called for an independent monitor to oversee major changes to the policy.
She did not end the policy, instead saying an independent monitor would develop an initial set of reforms to the policies, training, supervision, monitoring and discipline.
"The city's highest officials have turned a blind eye to the evidence that officers are conducting stops in a racially discriminatory manner," she wrote. "In their zeal to defend a policy that they believe to be effective, they have willfully ignored overwhelming proof that the policy of targeting "the right people" is racially discriminatory."
Police brass received warnings since at least 1999 that officers were violating rights, she said. "Despite this notice, they deliberately maintained and even escalated policies and practices that predictably resulted in even more widespread Fourth Amendment violations," she wrote in a lengthy opinion.
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