In a victory for civil rights advocates, a New York City judge has deemed an important part of the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” program unconstitutional. The program has long been criticized as an illegal abuse of law enforcement.
Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Sheindlin ordered New York’s police to end their policy – part of the city’s “Clean Halls” program – of stopping people outside residential apartment blocks and subjecting them to random search. “Clean Halls” exists only in New York’s generally impoverished Bronx section, which contains some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in town.
“While it may be difficult to say when precisely to draw the line between constitutional and unconstitutional police encounters such a line exists, and the NYPD has systematically crossed it when making trespass stops outside buildings,” Scheindlin’s ruling reads.
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