By Center For Constitutional Rights
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September 28, 2026, 2026, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York, today released a report showing that the NYPD is still severely underreporting stops. The lack of transparency, the monitor says, undermines “constitutional policing, accountability, and public trust.” The police both fail to report stops and wrongly classify stop and frisks as lower-level encounters. The monitor estimates the police misreported over 10,000 stops in 2025 – an underreporting rate of about 28 percent. This marks a small but statistically insignificant decrease from the rate in 2025. This persistent problem reflects a systemic lack of accountability. “Officers who misclassify stops as lower-level encounters and fail to prepare stop reports are rarely, if ever, disciplined,” the report says. Those harmed by the underreporting are primarily Black and Latinx New Yorkers, who account for a grossly disproportionate share – more than 90 percent – of the people stopped and frisked by the NYPD.
“This is not simply a problem of bad data and underreporting. It is a problem of ongoing systemic violence by the NYPD, which constantly finds new ways to skirt the law – underreporting, failing to activate body cameras, recategorizing encounters to escape audits, and more. Behind every missing or misclassified stop report is a New Yorker whose constitutional rights may have been violated, who – the data shows – is most likely Black or Latine. The NYPD’s consistent refusal to discipline officers, supervisors, and commanders for unlawful stops and failures to comply with reporting requirements sends a clear message: they can racially profile and illegally stop New Yorkers with impunity. After 13 years of federal monitorship, the NYPD’s still has not come into compliance with the Floyd court’s orders, demonstrating its deep resistance to changing its racist, abusive practices. We’re now on our fourth mayor and seventh police commissioner since the Floyd ruling, and the NYPD is no closer to following the law than in 2013. The question is whether Mayor Mamdani will require the NYPD to finally stop their illegal racial profiling and abusive violence against Black, Latine, and other communities or if he will continue to give Jessica Tisch, the NYPD, and individual officers a pass when they break the law,” said Samy Feliz, Justice Committee Organizer and brother of Allan Feliz.
“New Yorkers most impacted by the NYPD’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk practices have long demanded that all police stops, including low level encounters, must be reported to understand whether the NYPD is actually in compliance with the Floyd court order. This monitor report makes clear that even with the passage of the How Many Stops Act, officers continue to underreport and misclassify stops without any consequences. It is time that the NYPD hold officers accountable through the disciplinary process for continuously violating the court order,” said Samah Sisay, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the Floyd case in 2008.
“The NYPD’s systematic failure to document stops, frisks, and searches is not an oversight. It reflects a deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights of the residents of this city. The court needs to take aggressive action to remedy this deliberate neglect on the part of the NYPD,” said co-counsel Jonathan Moore of Beldock Levine Hoffman LLP.
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