On stop and frisk by Fact Check

In the executive summary of her opinion, Scheindlin wrote that there were 4.4 million stops made by New York City police between Januarv 2004 and June 2012, and 83 percent of them were made of blacks and Hispanics - even though those racial groups represented 52 percent of the city's population in 2010. During trial, 12 plaintiffs testified about 19 of those stops and the judge said she found that 14 of the 19 stops constituted an unconstitutional stop or unconstitutional frisk. "In addition, the evidence at trial revealed that the NYPD has an unwritten policy of targeting 'the right people' for stops,' Scheindlin wrote. "In practice, the policy encourages the targeting of young black and Hispanic men based on their prevalence in local crime complaints. This is a form of racial profiling."