Trial Over NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Tactic Begins this Week
The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.
Police have made about 5 million stops of New Yorkers in the past decade, mostly black and Hispanic men. The trial ill include testimony from a dozen people who say they were targeted because of their race and from police whistleblowers who say they were forced into making slipshod stops by bosses who were too focused on numbers.