A federal independent monitor has put out a new report on the NYPD's Neighborhood Safety Teams. Among the findings: 97% of people stopped are Black or Hispanic. LisaRoznerTV reports.
, the new report from the federal monitor finds Neighborhood Safety Teams -- or NSTs -- are making unlawful stops more than 50% of the time, and unlawful frisks and searches around 70% of the time."They just be kids. They be hanging around. They riding their bikes and then they stop them," Hunts Point resident Sean Porter said.The NSTs were created in March 2022 to combat gun violence in 32 high-crime areas citywide. Officers wear modified uniforms and drive unmarked cars.
From May to October, every week, a team looked at 20 NST body-worn cameras a week, and reviewed five stop reports at random. Among the findings: of 230 car stops, only two resulted in the recovery of weapons, and more than 97% of the people stopped by NST officers were Black or Hispanic. 's Special Litigation Unit."That comes with all sorts of problems of driving wedges between the city and communities and racial profiling. We'd call for the city to put an end to these units for good.""I didn't believe this was a fair assessment," Porcher said."We see disproportionately higher number of stops in communities of color, but you need to take into consideration you have a higher number of calls for service in those communities.
The monitor says the NYPD must now focus on improving compliance and the agency has 30 days to submit a plan on how it will do so.
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