By NYCLU
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NEW YORK CITY – Today, retired Judge Yates submitted to the court the most comprehensive report on the NYPD’s stop and frisk discipline practices since the 2013 court decision finding the practice unconstitutional. In response, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following statement, attributable to Executive Director Donna Lieberman:
“In the bad old days of stop and frisk, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were illegally stopped every year by the NYPD. This report shows those days are roaring back, with virtually no accountability for police abuse and misconduct, especially towards young people of color.
“NYPD stops have risen dramatically under Mayor Adams and so has police impunity. The Yates report shows exactly how opaque, byzantine and broken the NYPD’s discipline regime is by design. Mayor Adams’s NYPD cannot be trusted to police itself.”
In 2012 the NYCLU successfully sued the NYPD over stop and frisk abuse at private residential buildings, and in January 2013 a federal court found widespread constitutional violations. In August 2013 the court found similar violations in a much broader case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging street stops generally.
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