Good news. "In her long ruling, she (the Judge) determined at least 200,000 stops were made without reasonable suspicion, the necessary legal benchmark, lower than the standard of probable cause needed to justify an arrest. She said that rank-and-file officers were pressured by superiors to make stops — and that high-ranking police officials ignored mounting evidence that bad stops were being made. "The city and its highest officials believe that blacks and Hispanics should be stopped at the same rate as their proportion of the local criminal suspect population," she wrote. "But this reasoning is flawed because the stopped population is overwhelmingly innocent — not criminal."" US judge says NYPD stop-frisk violates rights my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20130812/e2df130a-9227-4d8d-91db-d81c7528b93d
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:35:21 +0000
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