   Earlier this month, the NYPD released data from its stop-and-
frisk activities after persistent requests from the New York
Civil Liberties Union. The stats, from the year 2011, show that
out of the 685,724 people who were stopped or detained under
"reasonable suspicion," almost 90 percent of them were either
Black or Latino. Overall, Blacks and Latinos make up 53 percent
of the city's population.  At around the same time of the
report's release, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin
ruled that the Clean Halls Program violated the constitutional
rights of New York City residents. According to Scheindlin, for
years the NYPD should have known (or already knew) that its
officers had routinely violated constitutional rights through
Clean Halls. Scheindlin said that the NYPD failed to properly
train officers about when it was legal to make trespass stops in
private residents. Scheindlin eventually suspended her ruling
while the NYPD and the city made an appeal, but residents are
pushing back against NYPD pol