Courts and the Constitution: Stop-and-Frisk and Abortion Restrictions Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Portrait of Shira A. Scheindlin, the federal judge who ruled in August 2013 that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk tactics were unconstitutional. ( Joel Spector / Wikipedia Commons ) Produced by Jillian Weinberger Produced by PRI and WNYC