{"id":644,"date":"2006-12-19T08:48:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T08:48:09","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"NYC federal jury: NYPD policy of detaining protestors overnight instead of being given a desk ticket appearance agreement unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal jury in Manhattan ruled yesterday that an NYPD policy that existed between May and July 2001 to deliberately delay procecessing of protestors when other, similarly situated offenders would get a desk ticket for a later appearance in court was unconstitutional. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/19\/nyregion\/19mbrfs-POLICY.html\">Police Policy Found Unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A jury in Federal District Court found yesterday that a police policy applied to demonstrators arrested for minor offenses between May 1 and mid-July 2001 was unconstitutional. In a case presented by some 360 plaintiffs, the jury agreed with lawyers who argued that senior police officials had issued orders for demonstrators arrested on minor charges to be put through a long processing, including a night in jail. The jury found that the police treated the demonstrators more harshly than they did nondemonstrators arrested on the same kind of charges, but rejected a claim that about 300 had been unfairly treated under an unwritten practice dating from 1999. Alan Levine, a plaintiffs\u2019 lawyer, said negotiations on behalf of about 30 clients eligible for damages under the verdict would begin soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evGMco.b2evALnk.b2WPAutP.b2evSmil <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=644\">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-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}