NY Court Won't Hear From Stop-and-Frisk Judge Scheindlin found that stop-and-frisk discriminated against minorities and appointed a monitor and a facilitator to find better ways to employ the tactics. Stop and frisk has been around for decades, but its use grew dramatically under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to an all-time high in 2011 of 684,330 stops, mostly of black and Hispanic men. Stop and frisk drew further rebuke in a first-of-its-kind analysis by the state's top prosecutor set to be released Thursday, which found that close to half of those arrests failed to result in convictions. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's report analyzed 150,000 stop-and-frisk arrests from 2.4 million stops between 2009 and 2012. It found that only 1.5 percent of arrests resulted in a jail or prison sentence - and a tenth of 1 percent led to convictions for violent crimes. The mayor's office and the NYPD didn't immediately return messages seeking comment on Schneiderman's report. On the ruling removing Scheindlin, City lawyer Michael Cardozo said the court's refusal to reconsider was correct. "The Second Circuit clearly explained how the judge's comments compromised the appearance of impartiality and required reassignment to a different district judge," Cardozo said in a statement.