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The New York City Police Department failed to discipline officers for violating the rights of citizens during controversial “stop-and-frisk” encounters, according to a review ordered by a ...
The stop-question-and-frisk program, or stop-and-frisk, in New York City, is a New York City Police Department (NYPD) practice of temporarily detaining, questioning, and at times searching civilians and suspects on the street for weapons and other contraband.
The NYPD's discipline matrix lists a three-day penalty for an illegal stop, frisk or search, but “imposition of that level of discipline is a rarity" and the department's patrol guide permits guidance rather than penalties in “isolated cases of erroneous but good-faith stops or frisks," Yates wrote.
Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., 959 F. Supp. 2d 540 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), is a set of cases addressing the class action lawsuit filed against the City of New York, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and named and unnamed New York City police officers ("Defendants"), alleging that defendants have implemented and sanctioned a policy, practice, and/or custom of ...
Pedro Serrano is a New York Police Department officer who testified against the department in Floyd v. City of New York, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights over the department's stop-and-frisk policies. [1] [2] [3] He also made recordings of his superiors which suggested that the NYPD required arrest quotas from patrolmen ...
NYPD Commissioner Dermott Shea called the move “a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this great city.” NYPD is disbanding a unit that is the 'last chapter' of stop-and-frisk ...
Epps, who held an administrative post in Maddrey’s office, was the NYPD’s top earner in fiscal year 2024, payroll data show. She raked in $400,000 that year, with overtime pay accounting for ...
Daniels, et al. v. the City of New York was a class action lawsuit filed in 1999 against the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the City of New York, charging them with racial profiling and unlawful stop and frisk, and requesting the disbanding of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit.