The Legal Standing Of 'Stop And Frisk'

As they say: those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Donald Trump (by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia)

Donald Trump (by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia)

Donald Trump recently announced he wants to expand the police program of “stop and frisk,” but what federal judge found the New York Police Department’s program unconstitutional since it overwhelmingly targeted people and communities of color?

Hint: The S.D.N.Y. jurist wrote in 2013, “Those who are routinely subjected to stops are overwhelmingly people of color, and they are justifiably troubled to be singled out when many of them have done nothing to attract the unwanted attention.”

See the answer on the next page.

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