A legal group that fought the landmark civil-rights case in which the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies were found to be racially discriminatory and unconstitutional is once again emphasizing that the program was a failure.
In the presidential debate on Monday night, Republican nominee Donald Trump claimed that stop-and-frisk policies “worked very well.” He insisted they “brought the crime rate way down” and called for such programs to be implemented in cities like Chicago.
Trump’s assertions fly in the face of facts, however. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, released a statement on Tuesday morning stressing that the stop-and-frisk policies had been a disaster. ...
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