NYPD Unwilling to Impose Discipline for Stop and Frisk, Report Says (original) (raw)

New York|N.Y.P.D. Unwilling to Impose Discipline for Stop-and-Frisk, Report Says

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The department’s discipline for illegal street detentions is lax at every level, according to an extraordinary review ordered by a federal judge.

New York police officers stand near a group of people on the street at night. One of the officers is writing on a small piece of paper.

Police officers at the Brownsville Houses in Brooklyn in June 2010. Stop-and-frisk tactics defined policing on the streets of New York for decades, and were endemic in Black and Latino communities.Credit...Robert Stolarik for The New York Times

Sept. 23, 2024

At every level, the New York Police Department has failed to punish officers who have violated the rights of people stopped on the street, according to a new report — a failure that reaches all the way to the top of the force.

The document is the most comprehensive independent review of discipline since a landmark court decision in 2013 held that the department’s use of stop-and-frisk violated the Constitution and ordered wide-ranging reforms, including a federal monitor.

It finds that police commissioners during the past decade have routinely reduced discipline recommended for officers found to have wrongly stopped, questioned and frisked people, undermining efforts to curb unconstitutional abuses.

The report by James Yates, a retired New York State judge, was ordered by Judge Analisa Torres of Manhattan federal court and made public on Monday.

Mr. Yates was assigned by the court to conduct a “granular, step-by-step analysis” of the department’s policies and discipline governing stop-and-frisk, a tactic of detaining people on the street that was being used disproportionately against Black and Latino New Yorkers.

The 503-page document that resulted paints a picture of an agency unwilling to impose discipline on an abusive practice that has prompted criticism that the department oppresses many New Yorkers.

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