Critics argue that stop and frisk policy disproportionately targets people of color, particularly blacks and Latinos.
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This lawsuit is one of three federal legal challenges to stop and frisk before Judge Scheindlin.
Police officials say stop and frisk is a legal crime-stopping tool that has helped drive crime down to record lows.
He suggested more training for officers on racial profiling and stop and frisk at the police academy and on the job.
"We can't depend on Speaker Quinn to reform stop and frisk if she won't acknowledge there is a problem, " he said.
Preliminary rulings in this and other pending stop and frisk lawsuits by Judge Scheindlin suggest the city's attorneys face an uphill battle.
The mayor and police commissioner say stop and frisk is a life-saving, crime-stopping tool that has helped drive crime down to record lows.
She said talks were progressing on three companion proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk, including expanding protections against racial profiling.
After several lawsuits challenging the practice, a federal judge is now weighing whether remedies are needed to prevent unconstitutional "stop and frisk" encounters.
The police and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have maintained that stop and frisk has helped keep the city's crime rate at historic lows.
Stop and frisk is a police tactic under which officers made more than 685, 000 stops last year on suspicion that a crime had been committed.
"If New York has any sense, it will use this ruling as an opportunity to start a wholesale reform of stop and frisk, " Mr. Dunn said.
We'd like to hear if you have an experience with Stop and Frisk, either as a person who's been stopped, as a bystander or as a law enforcement officer.
"What comes from the Operation Clean Halls case is going to result in a major step toward dismantling the NYPD's out of control stop and frisk practices, " she said.
Awaiting discussion is Cuomo's proposed restrictions to the stop and frisk tactic being used by New York City police and the governor's plan to de-criminalize the small amounts of marijuana often found during the frisks.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled this year that changes to the program must be made, but she reserved judgment on what those changes will be until the other stop and frisk cases are heard.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, who has said in earlier rulings that she is deeply concerned about stop and frisk, is not being asked to ban the tactic, since it has been found to be legal.
Philadelphia settled a civil rights lawsuit last year over its stop-and-frisk program by agreeing to court monitoring, and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee backed off plans to adopt stop and frisk after weeks of criticism last summer.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Kelly have hailed "stop and frisk" as a program that has deterred crime and saved lives by taking weapons off of would-be killers and by making crooks reconsider carrying weapons in the first place.
"The events of last week were deeply disturbing to everyone in the city, " and the trial has helped sharpen focus on stop and frisk, but intense negotiations among lawmakers and advocates were under way for weeks beforehand, Quinn said.
Mr. Williams said he called the mayor to apologize but stands by his position that the NYPD is misusing the tactic and that the administration is using "spin and selective statistics" to sell stop and frisk as a life-saving tool.
Mid-trial, city lawmakers said they'd reached broad agreement on a proposal to create an inspector general to oversee the department in part because of stop and frisk and a series of stories by The Associated Press on the monitoring of Muslims.
If elected, Mr. Thompson said he would increase the city police force by 2, 000 officers, flood high-crime areas with veterans instead of rookies and fix "stop and frisk, " a tactic in which officers can stop people whom they reasonably suspect of criminal behavior.
Street stops increased substantially in New York in the mid-1990s, when, faced with overwhelming crime, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made stop and frisk an integral part of the city's law enforcement, relying on the "broken windows" theory that targeting low-level offenses helps prevent bigger ones.
Says we here in Chicago are doing stop and frisk, he points to you know, the eight, ten thousand guns we pull off the street every year and says, you don't think people are just coming up to us and giving those to us do you?
Bloomberg's news conference also coincided with a civil trial challenging the constitutionality of one of the city's strategies for taking guns off the street, a tactic known as "stop and frisk" in which officers have halted, questioned and often searched hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent people.
The stop-and-frisk tactic, under which officers stop, question and sometimes frisk people they reasonably suspect of having committed a crime, has been the subject of a civil trial in federal court in Manhattan.
The two other stop-and-frisk-related cases in front of Judge Scheindlin are a lawsuit over trespassing in public housing projects and a class-action suit challenging the constitutionality of the broader stop-and-frisk practice, which is slated to go to trial in March.
Proposed last year, the inspector general and stop-and-frisk measures have gotten entrained in the politics of a competitive mayoral campaign.
There's already a hot mayoral race, there have already been debates involving six candidates, and Stop-and-Frisk is a hot, hot topic.
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