Federal Judge Recognizes Reality

This one almost falls into the "no fucking shit" file:

A New York judge ruled Monday that "stop-and-frisk" searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.

In a major victory for civil rights activists who have long contended that stop-and-frisk amounts to racial profiling, US district court judge Shira Scheindlin said the stops violated individuals' right to privacy and equal treatment under the law.

She added that testimony had led her to believe that the NYPD carries out more stops of black and Hispanic residents, "even when other relevant variables are held constant".

I haven't read the ruling and to be frank, unless somebody pays me to, I'm not about to dive into a 39-page order with an accompanying 195-page ruling, even if it is double-spaced.

The testilying of the NYPD on this matter is legendary. The cops routinely put down that they saw a "furtive movement" or some other bullshit as a justification for the stop.

Mayor Mikey "Rules are for Other People" Bloomberg and his stooge Police Commissioner tried to pressure the judge through public opinion, a tactic that rarely ever works. Federal judges have lifetime appointments, they don't give a fuck what some low-rent politician has to say, even if he has a gajillion dollars.

UPDATE: Short version of Bloomberg's reaction: Whaaa!