A federal judge struck down the New York Police Department’s highly contentious stop-and-frisk policy Monday, prompting an allegation of bias and the promise of an appeal by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Civil liberties advocates hailed the 195-page ruling, which asserts that the NYPD had turned a “blind eye” toward the constitutional implications of its long-running strategy of proactively stopping and searching city residents who were often black or Latino…
