The US government has also asked for penalties against Rebeca Mairone, a former midlevel executive at the bank’s Countrywide unit District Court in Manhattan, who was also found liable by a federal jury.
 

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The New York City Police Department’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” program was a major issue for voters going to the polls in the city’s mayoral election. The issue drew widespread attention in August when U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin found “stop-and-frisk” unconstitutional, saying police had relied on a "policy of indirect racial profiling" that led officers to routinely stop "blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white." While she did not halt use of the tactic, Scheindlin appointed a federal court monitor to oversee a series of reforms.