“The federal courts are bearing down on the New York City Police Department’s constitutionally suspect stop-and-frisk program, under which hundreds of thousands of citizens are stopped on the streets each year, often illegally and for no discernible reason. The department’s patently illegal strategy, the judge said, encouraged officers to ‘stop and question first, develop reasonable suspicion later.’ The ruling focuses on detentions that occurred as people were entering or leaving one of many residential buildings in the Bronx whose managers had simply asked the department to patrol the area and arrest trespassers.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/opinion/when-police-violate-the-constitution.html?_r=1&
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