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Federal judge to NYPD: End some 'stop and frisk'

Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial

Photo credit: Getty Images | Opponents of the New York Police Department's controversial "stop-and-frisk" policy rally in the Bronx. (Jan. 27, 2012)

A Manhattan federal judge Tuesday ordered the NYPD to stop what she called the unconstitutional practice of stopping people for trespass outside private Bronx apartment buildings.

Judge Shira Scheindlin, who is hearing this and two other cases on the NYPD's controversial stop and frisk policy, ruled the department had been indifferent to evidence of the unlawfulness in the way the Trespass...

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