Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios
A landmark trial challenging the New York police department's (NYPD) controversial stop and frisk policy began in a lower Manhattan court on Monday. The class action suit accuses the NYPD of violating the constitutional rights of hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers on a widespread and systemic basis.
New York city police officers stopped 685,724 citizens in 2011, continuing an upward trend that began when Michael Bloomberg
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