“A sweeping set of changes to the New York City Police Department’s controversial ‘stop-and-frisk’ program has been put on hold. An appeals court stayed the changes, effectively postponing the operations of the monitor, while allowing police officers to continue using stop-and-frisk tactics. In a striking move, the court also took the unusual step of removing Scheindlin from the case, saying she had ‘ran afoul’ of the judiciary’s code of conduct and compromised the ‘appearance of impartiality surrounding this litigation’ by granting media interviews while the case was pending before her.”
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