Shira Scheindlin, Judge Behind Stop-and-Frisk Ruling, Will.

One essay, appearing on the Dorf on Law blog, details efforts by the administration of outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to overturn U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin’s ruling that city police had engaged in unconstitutional racial profiling through the department's longstanding stop and frisk policies.

An internal report by Mayor Bloomberg's office paints the judge who will soon rule on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy as biased against law enforcement, the Daily News has learned.

A federal judge blasted the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk as unconstitutional on Monday and appointed a federal monitor to oversee the program - a move Mayor Bloomberg warned could have deadly.

Decision To Remove Judge In Stop-And-Frisk Case Deeply Flawed: Civil Rights Lawyers Civil Rights attorneys argued that removing Judge Scheindlin, who had earlier ruled that the NYPD must change its stop-and-frisk policy, was unwarranted.

The Statistical Debate Behind the Stop-and-Frisk Verdict. Judge Shira Scheindlin has ruled that the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy amounts to “a policy of indirect.

Lawmakers, activists and others have been weighing in on the decision: Rev. Al Sharpton “The New York Judge’s decision on stop-and-frisk is a huge victory for those of us that have marched and.

Judge Scheindlin Slams Bloomberg on Stop-and-Frisk Report.. After the stop-and-frisk decision, a furious Bloomberg slammed the judge on the radio, never uttering her name. “Your safety and the safety of your kids is now in the hands of some woman who does not have the expertise to do it,” he said. “What does she know about policing?

A judge takes on stop-and-frisk. The primary outlet for Scheindlin’s judicial creativity has been an enduring battle she has fought with the N.Y.P.D.

Three years ago, federal Judge Shira Scheindlin declared the New York Police Department’s “stop and frisk” operations unconstitutional.An audit of these stops found that black and Latino New.

Stop-and-frisk opponents fired up by judge's ruling against NYPD tactic. Scheindlin's decision was the first federal ruling, under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to declare that.

Judge Scheindlin explained that her decision was not based on the effectiveness of the stop-and-frisk method. I emphasize at the outset, as I have throughout the litigation, that this case is not about the effectiveness of stop and frisk in deterring or combating crime.

Over her 22 years as a federal judge, Scheindlin presided over several noteworthy cases outside of e-discovery—perhaps most notably the very contentious matter, Floyd v. City of New York, known commonly as the NYPD Stop-and-Frisk case, where Scheindlin held the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional.