Judge tosses stop and frisk lawsuit
![“We strongly disagree with the judge’s decision and we intend to appeal it. This law sends an extremely bad message to our police officers who will see themselves in legal cross hairs with every arrest they make. Potentially, this bad law can have a very serious impact on public safety.”- Pat Lynch, President, PBA of New York City](https://files.pubsecalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lynch.jpg)
“We strongly disagree with the judge’s decision and we intend to appeal it. This law sends an extremely bad message to our police officers who will see themselves in legal cross hairs with every arrest they make. Potentially, this bad law can have a very serious impact on public safety.”- Pat Lynch, President, PBA of New York City
A Manhattan judge this week tossed the NYPD PBA’s challenge to a law that makes it easier for people who think they were racially profiled by cops before a stop and frisk to sue individual officers. “This court recognizes that police officers must make split-second decision when engaging in investigative stops,” Justice Anil Singh ruled. He said it “does not prevent police officers from continuing to stop, question and frisk while utilizing their training and experience’’ but only “seeks to deter the use of attribution such as race as the sole basis for an investigatory stop.’’