...Friday is the third anniversary of the landmark federal court ruling by Judge Shira Scheindlin that found “stop and frisk” policing as practiced in New York weighed heavily on innocent young men in minority neighborhoods and was unconstitutional. Three years of falling crime has proved the critics of stop-and-frisk right. But it doesn’t mean that police brutality is vanquished, or that the task of reform is done. ...

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