NYPD Still Illegally Stopping New Yorkers 12 Years After Court Ruling, Monitor Finds

More than a decade after a federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices violated the Constitution, the agency is still not following the law according to a new report by a court-appointed monitor.

“This is not the year-end report that I had hoped to submit,” wrote the monitor, Mylan Denerstein, who said the findings were a “wake-up call.”

The report is the latest to document the NYPD’s lack of compliance with court-ordered reforms stemming from the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York ruling, which found the department’s practices violated the constitutional rights of Black and Latino residents…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS