Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) has never had a problem going against police and prosecutors where she is convinced that constitutional rights are being sacrificed in the name of security.
Whether such rights are being sacrificed is the core dispute before her in Floyd v. City of New York, 08 Civ. 1034, as the New York City Law Department defends stop, question and frisk as an effective crime-fighting tool against civil rights lawyers who claim minorities are being targeted for searches without reasonable suspicion.
