The settlement, the second largest ever against the City, is another legal defeat for the NYPD. In 2013, a federal judge ruled against the NYPD’s Stop and Frisk efforts, calling them “racial profiling.†Stinson, in many ways, is the “Broken Windows†lawsuit. “Broken Windows†policing is the aggressive enforcement against so-called “quality-of-life†crimes that has been the centerpiece of the NYPD’s daily harassment of poor people of color since the 1990s.
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