Meet the Federal Judge Trump Attacked for Ruling NYPD's Stop & Frisk Policy was Unconstitutional
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#3BRW2)
We speak with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role in a case that found the controversial police policy of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional. While running for president, Donald Trump called for a nationwide stop-and-frisk program. "It was a bad policy," Judge Scheindlin says. "It was not effective law enforcement " It obviously wasn't deterring crime. All it was doing was alienating the community from the police."