Lawyer: NYPD knew stop-and-frisk misused
Photo credit: Linda Rosier | A rally at City Hall Park against the NYPD stop at frisk policy. (Sept. 27, 2012)
The NYPD has known for two decades that its officers were misusing trespass laws to make innocent citizens the targets of illegal stop-and-frisk practices and has done nothing to stop it, a civil liberties lawyer said Wednesday in closing arguments on a federal lawsuit over the controversial police tactic.
"It's been the embodiment of deliberate indifference," lawyer Christopher Dunn told...
