Thanks to Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers — those stopped on the street and searched, but never charged — may be in line for a big payday.
The city will be the poorer for that, should it come to pass. Whether it will be safer is another matter entirely.
Scheindlin yesterday granted class-action status to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the NYPD’s highly effective stop-and-frisk anti-crime policy of deliberate racial bias.
The city will be the poorer for that, should it come to pass. Whether it will be safer is another matter entirely.
Scheindlin yesterday granted class-action status to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the NYPD’s highly effective stop-and-frisk anti-crime policy of deliberate racial bias.
