Thanks to Manhattan Federal Court Judge Shira Scheindlin, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers — those stopped on the street and searched, but never charged — may be in line for a big payday.
The city will be the poorer for that, should it come to pass. Whether it will be safer is another matter entirely.
Scheindlin yesterday granted class-action status to a 2008 lawsuit accusing the NYPD’s highly effective stop-and-frisk anti-crime policy of deliberate racial bias.
