{"id":6986,"date":"2012-04-16T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T00:04:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:41:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6986","title":{"rendered":"News and Insight: &#8220;Judge allows expert witness in &#8216;stop and frisk&#8217; case against NYPD&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News and Insight: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com\/Legal\/News\/2012\/04_-_April\/Judge_allows_expert_witness_in__stop_and_frisk__case_against_NYPD\/\">Judge allows expert witness in &#8216;stop and frisk&#8217; case against NYPD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The New York Police Department has lost a bid to prevent an expert witness from testifying at a trial about the controversial crime-fighting tactic known as &#8220;stop and frisk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin on Monday said Columbia University professor Jeffrey Fagan, a criminology expert, would be allowed to testify about his &#8220;stop and frisk&#8221; research showing that police were more likely to stop blacks and Hispanics than whites.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6986\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}