N.Y. City Intends to Appeal Ruling on Police Stop-&-Frisks
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New York City intends to appeal a judge’s order blocking the city police practice of stopping individuals outside privately owned buildings in the Bronx.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan on Jan. 8 ordered the New York Police Department to stop making so-called “trespass stops” outside buildings enrolled in the city’s Trespass Affidavit Program, or TAP, in the Bronx, without reasonable suspicion the people are on the property illegally. The practice violates the U.S. Constitution, she ruled.