The NYPD's Neighborhood Safety Teams are heavily engaging in illegal stop-and-frisk tactics and overwhelmingly targeting Black and Hispanic New Yorkers, according to a new report from the federal monitor overseeing the department.
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Further, in a troubling echo of the past, more than 97% of the unit’s stops are against Black or Latino New Yorkers. Mayor Adams, a former police captain, launched the Neighborhood Safety Teams last year as a revival of sorts of the NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime units, which were disbanded in 2020 after protests against the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota. Those units were historically responsible for a disproportionate amount of illegal stop-and-frisk and use-of-force incidents.The units were deployed strategically to areas said to suffer from high rates of gun violence, which.
While the unit is uniformed on foot, its patrol vehicles are unmarked. As for its vehicle stops, just two out of 230 reviewed by the monitor resulted in the recovery of weapons. Another two recovered unidentifiable contraband. Mayor Adams holds up a picture of Claudia Quatey, a victim of a stray bullet, in justifying his Neighborhood Safety Teams following a scathing federal monitor’s report.Mayor Adams strongly pushed back on the report at an unrelated press event on Tuesday.
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