It's been ten years since federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled the NYPD's application of 'stop and frisk' was unconstitutional. Now, she says she fears it's making a comeback.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Saturday, August 12 marks 10 years since the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk policy was ruled unconstitutional. The practice was a hallmark of policing in New York during Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s administration and hit its apex under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly.
Hanssen: I just want to remind listeners exactly what was happening 10 years ago. Before we talk about the ruling, just paint a picture of what was happening at the time in terms of stop and frisk in the NYPD. This led to the conclusion that there was a lot of racial profiling going on. The police targeted certain neighborhoods, targeted certain members of our society disproportionately, so the burden fell on Black and Hispanic people. There was testimony at the trial that police were told essentially, we need to stop the right people in the right places at the right time.
So what does that tell us? It tells us that all those stops were essentially useless. And they were not what made crime go up or down. It just didn't have the impact it was supposed to have, except to alienate a lot of New Yorkers and a lot of communities who didn't trust police and wouldn't cooperate with police, and they need police.
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