The notorious anti-crime squads were rebranded, but a federal monitor finds they routinely violated Black and brown people’s rights.
Photo: Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily News/TNS via Getty ImagesMayor Eric Adams announced last year that he would revive the NYPD’s anti-crime units, critics were concerned because of
Denerstein’s team audited reports and recordings of stops made by the units for six months of 2022 and found Neighborhood Safety Team officers had “reasonable suspicion” for 76 percent of stops, meaning nearly a quarter of stops had been made unlawfully. The report alsoat a rate “nine percentage points higher” than the 2020 rate for the department as a whole. Of the people stopped by police in these encounters, more than 97 percent were Black or Hispanic.
The rates were worse in some areas: In the 43rd Precinct, which covers the Longwood and Hunts Point neighborhoods in the Bronx, 59 percent of their stops were unlawful and 68 percent of frisks were conducted without sufficient evidence that the person was armed.
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