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Home » Judge Orders Stop to NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Practice
The New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its stop-and-frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes, a federal judge ruled Monday, according to The Associated Press.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin says she was not putting an end to the policy – which the mayor and police commissioner defend as a life-saving, crime-fighting tool – but rather reforming it. The independent monitor would develop reforms to policies, training, supervisions, monitoring and discipline, AP reports.