New York Police Department supervisors failed to rein in unlawful stops, frisks and searches by anti-crime units in 2023, a monitor said in a new report.
New York Police Department supervisors failed to rein in unlawful stops, frisks and searches by anti-crime units in 2023, a monitor said in a new report.
New York Police Department supervisors failed to rein in unlawful stops, frisks and searches by anti-crime units in 2023, a monitor said in a new report.
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at a new report on the Police Department’s use of unlawful stop-and-frisk tactics. We’ll also learn about a newly sustainable N.Y.U. dorm.
New York City has been trying to curb the practice of unlawful stops, frisks and searches by police officers for more than a decade. But such tactics were still being used in 2023, according to a new report from a court-appointed monitor that is based on the most recent available data.
On Monday, the monitor, Mylan Denerstein, filed a report in federal court in Manhattan that determined that the Police Department’s Neighborhood Safety Teams and Public Safety Teams had made unlawful stops at least a quarter of the time in 2023 and that command-level supervisors had regularly failed to address them.
As my colleague Maia Coleman reports, the monitor called for accountability for these anti-crime units, which have a troubled history.
“The ball is in the Department’s hands, and the N.Y.P.D. can do this,” Denerstein wrote. “The law requires no less.”
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