Court Case Winds Down In New York's Stop-And-Frisk Challenge

http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/05/20/121031/court_case_winds_down_in_new_yorks_stopandfrisk_challenge?source=npr&category=u.s.

Closing arguments are set to take place Monday in the federal class action trial involving New York City's stop-and-frisk policy. The trial has been going on for two months in Manhattan.

Plaintiffs in Floyd v. City of New York claim the New York Police Department, its supervisors and its union pressured police officers to stop, question and frisk hundreds of thousands of people each year, even establishing quotas. They argue that 88 percent of the stops involved blacks and Hispanics, mostly men, and were in fact a form of racial profiling.