This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of a landmark court decision that found the NYPD’s use of a controversial policing tactic known as “stop and frisk” routinely violated people’s constitutional rights and discriminated against people of color.
focused on stops in public housing. But perhaps the best-known case was Floyd v. City of New York, which was named for its lead plaintiff David Floyd, a Black man who said he had been stopped and frisked without justification in the Bronx.data
“What happened was these stops were essentially drilling in a dry well,” Scheindlin said in an interview. “The stops did not produce drugs, did not produce guns, did not produce evidence of crimes. It was just an intrusion into people's freedom to walk about without being harassed by police.” But the numbers have begun to creep up again under Adams, who ran on a tough-on-crime platform. Last year, according to NYPD data, police stopped about 15,100 pedestrians. Watchdogs believe this is likely an undercount, because police often don’t fill out paperwork after they stop someone, which makes it difficult to accurately track the numbers., more than 90% of those stopped were people of color.
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