http://youtu.be/Xb6zNXtkSNk
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities in the city, repudiating a major element in the Bloomberg administration's crime-fighting legacy.
The use of police stops has been widely cited by city officials as a linchpin of New York's success story in seeing murders and major crimes fall to historic lows. The police say the practice has saved the lives of thousands of young black and Hispanic men by removing thousands of guns from the streets.
The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
Read more here from Joseph Goldstein / New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/nyr...
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