Federal Court Rules NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Program Unconstitutional Racial Profiling

U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled in Floyd v. City of New York that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, constituting unconstitutional racial profiling. She appointed a monitor to oversee reforms. Mayor Bloomberg appealed but the appeal was withdrawn after Bill de Blasio took office in January 2014.