CARIBBEAN-COURT-US judge rules against NYPD’s stop-and-frisk of Caribbean immigrants

NEW YORK, CMC - A United States federal district judge on Monday ruled against the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) policy of stop-and-frisk against Caribbean immigrants, blacks and other minorities. In a ruling in Manhattan Federal District Court, Judge Shira Scheindlin said the policy was unconstitutional, appointing a monitor to reform the practice. She said the city “adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling by targeting racially defined groups for stops based on local crime suspect data,” rejecting the NYPD’s claim that more stops occur in minority neighborhoods because of alleged high-crime rates there.