Civil liberties lawyers told a federal judge yesterday they had shown enough evidence during trial to warrant a preliminary injunction against police stop-and-frisk tactics outside of private buildings in the Bronx that have given permission for police to patrol their halls.
Christopher Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union argued before Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) that evidence at the seven-day trial showed “police officers believed they could act as custodians” under the department’s Clean Halls Program and simply stop, question and possibly frisk and arrest residents of the buildings or their guests coming and going.
