New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, speaks to reporters after a ruling on "stop and frisk."
The judge ruled in favor of civil rights activists who took legal action against the New York City Police Department. Priscilla Gonzalez from Communities United for Police Reform was one of those who appeared before the court. She praised the ruling.
“A whole generation of New Yorkers, particularly in black and brown communities across the city, have grown up seeing the police not as protectors, not as partners in safety, but as an institution to be feared.”
Mayor Bloomberg said the city would appeal the ruling. He told reporters that the judge “ignored the real-world realities of crime.”
New York police estimate they have made about five million stops in the past ten years under the stop and search policy. Studies show that about 80 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic. The policy resulted in arrests about 10 percent of the time.
The judge did not order an end to the stop and search policy. But she called for an outside monitor to make sure the Police Department is following the Constitution. She also ordered a test program requiring police in some New York neighborhoods to wear small cameras to record their contacts with civilians.
I'm Jim Tedder.
That’s the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, performing “Jailhouse Rock” one of his many hit songs. Presley died on this day, August 16, in 1977. The artist was only 42 years old. He had only been in the business 23 years. But he was, and remains, the biggest selling single recording artist of all time. Only the Beatles come before Elvis and there were four of them.
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