Federal district court Judge Shira Scheindlin's stunning 195-page opinion on August 12 about stop-and-frisk in New York City should be mandatory reading for every police commissioner and police chief in the United States.

In meticulous detail, Scheindlin documents how the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities by routinely stopping "blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white."

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