{"id":7140,"date":"2012-05-17T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T07:55:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7140","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes Editorial: &#8220;Reform Stop-and-Frisk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes Editorial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/17\/opinion\/reform-stop-and-frisk.html?_r=1\">Reform Stop-and-Frisk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court spoke up for the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics on Wednesday <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/16\/judge-allows-class-action-status-in-stop-and-frisk-lawsuit\/\">by granting class-action status<\/a> to a lawsuit that accuses the New York Police Department of using race as the basis for stopping and frisking hundreds of thousands of citizens a year. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/356750-5-16-12-floyd-class-cert-opinion-and-order.html\">The decision<\/a> opens the door to potential claims by an enormous number of people who may have been illegally stopped, and any remedy would be applied citywide. In a fierce defense of the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, Judge Scheindlin was profoundly critical of the police program. The city\u2019s arguments, she wrote, \u201cdo not withstand the overwhelming evidence that there, in fact, exists a centralized stop-and-frisk program that has led to thousands of unlawful stops.\u201d She allowed the class-action status because \u201cthe vast majority of New Yorkers who are unlawfully stopped will never bring suit to vindicate their rights.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7140\">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-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}