Barbara Ross
New York Daily News
September 3, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg field a lawsuit against City Council (click here) to overturn a law passed last month that would make it easier for people to sue after being targeted by the NYPD's controversial Stop-and-Frisk program.
The law allows plaintiffs to sue for profiling in state court for injuctive relief only - which means a winning plaintiff could ask the court to mandate that the NYPD change it's tactics, but, profiling beyond race to include categories such as age, gender, sexual orientation and housing status...
This isn't about cops. The police are the employees of the city and they are doing what is required of them. This is about the City's Liability and the social stigma placed on victims when viewed in public when they are stopped.
New York Daily News
September 3, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg field a lawsuit against City Council (click here) to overturn a law passed last month that would make it easier for people to sue after being targeted by the NYPD's controversial Stop-and-Frisk program.
The law allows plaintiffs to sue for profiling in state court for injuctive relief only - which means a winning plaintiff could ask the court to mandate that the NYPD change it's tactics, but, profiling beyond race to include categories such as age, gender, sexual orientation and housing status...
This isn't about cops. The police are the employees of the city and they are doing what is required of them. This is about the City's Liability and the social stigma placed on victims when viewed in public when they are stopped.
That is what this is about and why the City Council ruled to avoid liability. The Unconstitutional ruling opens the flood gates to class actions suits and civil suites of this law.
I haven't read the court ruling, but, what was the main focus of the decision of unconstitutional grounds. Was there a mention to the civil liability of the City for the policy and why complainants were prohibited from suing?
NYC Stop-and-Frisk Ruling Leaves City Potentially Liable (click here)
By Brett Snider, Esp.
August 14, 2013
New York City's stop-and-frisk practice is going to end up costing the city unless the decision reached by a federal district court on Monday is successfully appealed and overturned by the Second Circuit....
Wow, where did America go? It isn't on the streets of NYC. This law not only takes the wrong course in solving the problem of violence and crime, it also allows the city to feel no pain when citizens are viewed by others and quite possibly causing a loss of job opportunity and/or reputation.
August 14, 2013
New York City's stop-and-frisk practice is going to end up costing the city unless the decision reached by a federal district court on Monday is successfully appealed and overturned by the Second Circuit....
Wow, where did America go? It isn't on the streets of NYC. This law not only takes the wrong course in solving the problem of violence and crime, it also allows the city to feel no pain when citizens are viewed by others and quite possibly causing a loss of job opportunity and/or reputation.
