The federal judge closed the New York Police stop and open the cooling demand for millions

The federal judge closed the New York Police stop and open the cooling demand for millions

opponents of controversial stop-and-Frisk Police in New York in the program won an important victory in court on Wednesday after a federal judge granted class action status for claims that- allege that millions of people remain racially part of the city department for research illegal.

In a scathing 57-page decision, Judge Shira A. Schiendlin said it was “overwhelming evidence” to stop and Frisk program directly from high levels of the police department and has been responsible for thousands of illegal stops.

In its reasons for deviating from the demand, Schiendlin wrote that the police department, “the apathy shown deep concern to New Yorkers the most basic constitutional rights.”

Resolution Schiendlin

is a serious setback for the police department administration and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has supported the police commissioner Ray Kelly, managing the program, said the lawyers.

“should be a warning,” said Eugene O’Donnell, professor of law at John Jay School of Criminal Justice. “There is a strong rebuke to the police department and the city.”

Resolution clears way for thousands of New Yorkers who may have been victims of rape illegal to join the case, seeking a court order forcing the police to change their policies. The city has 30 days to appeal the ruling.

Millions of New Yorkers have been detained under the increasing danger and Frisk program in the last decade, including more than 600,000 in 2011. New figures released last week show the police department on track to seize and search 730,000 people in 2012, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. In comparison, the New York City police stopped 97,000 people according to plan in 2002.

Nearly 90 percent of those arrested in 2011 were black or Latino. There were more stops of black men between 14 and 24 who are not members of the demographics in the city.

In a press conference at City Hall, Bloomberg said he had not read the decision and declined to comment on it.

“We disagree about the decision and to see our legal options,” said Connie Pankratz, a spokeswoman for the legal division of the city, in an email.

Darius Charney, a lawyer from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed the lawsuit against the city, said the judge’s ruling in the text results in the fight for the Police Department’s policy – the actions of a few corrupt agents – would lead to widespread illegal search. On appeal, the city would not doubt the facts, he said.

“We believe we have developed a strong factual record that the illegal tactics used throughout the city,” said Charney . “It is founded. Not be reopened or amended.”

City Council members and other city leaders against the risk and Frisk quickly pounced on the decision, calling it another indication of the direction that Bloomberg and Police Department of the concerns of ordinary New Yorkers.

“It is time for the city to repair the damage of this fragmentation strategy,” said President Scott Stringer of Manhattan County, which is expected to run for mayor in 2013.

With Bloomberg planned to leave office next year, stop and Frisk has become a potentially important factor in the race to replace him. The matter could remain in the background to the decision of whether to appeal Schienlin refuses and refers the case to trial.

recent attack by Howard Wolfson, the deputy mayor, Bill De Blaisio, the public defender and another potential candidate for mayor, suggesting that Bloomberg does not intend to reverse stop and cool, though.

De Blasio has been ve ry critical of the Frisk and stops, calls the trend “broken” in a recent speech.

“He is doing a blind eye and do not even recognize that there are concerns about the city,” said De Blasio, the focus of the Mayor. “This shows how out of place it is.”

In response, Wolfson said De Blasio was “nostalgia for the days when the ACLU to the criminal policy” in the city.

“Make no mistake, it will continue to be the safest city in America, if Mr. De Blasio has his way,” said Wolfson.

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