New York City's reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk' as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law, a federal monitor reported.
FILE - NYPD officers patrol the surrounding areas at Rockefeller Center in New York on Dec. 19, 2019. A court-appointed federal monitor reported Monday, June 5, 2023, that New York City's reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk" as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law. FILE - NYPD officers patrol the surrounding areas at Rockefeller Center in New York on Dec. 19, 2019.
NEW YORK — New York City’s reliance on the tactic known as “stop and frisk” as part of a new initiative to combat gun violence is harming communities of color and running afoul of the law, a court-appointed federal monitor reported Monday. Monitor Mylan Denerstein said the NYPD ’s Neighborhood Safety Teams — special units deployed in the past 14 months to seize guns in high-crime areas — were engaging in “unconstitutional policing” by stopping and frisking too many people without justification.
In one police precinct, Denerstein said, only 41 percent of stops, 32 percent of frisks and 26 percent of searches were lawful. The Neighborhood Safety Teams, a replacement for the anti-crime units that the NYPD disbanded in 2021, operate in 34 areas that account for 80% of the city’s violent crime — largely communities of color. Of the people the teams have stopped, Denerstein said, 97% are Black or Hispanic.
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