By The Editors
The lawsuit claims that the city’s policing practices in its public housing developments – most notably, its “vertical sweeps” of buildings — “routinely” subject residents and those who visit them to illegal stops and false arrests that serve no lawful purpose.

Despite repeated efforts at reform, police departments continue to target communities of color and subject them to dramatically higher rates of stops, search, and arrest. Recent studies show that after three decades of increasing incarceration rates, more than one in every 100 adults in the nation is now behind bars.
The numbers for African Americans are [...]