Source: https://www.legalaidnyc.org/news/2018/6/11/civil-rights-organizations-demand-court-order-requiring-nypd-stop-and-frisk-reforms
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 22:29:38+00:00

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Today, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions that challenged the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk and trespass enforcement practices as racially discriminatory and unconstitutional (Floyd v. City of New York, Ligon v. City of New York, and Davis v. City of New York) urged the federal court to order the NYPD to implement reforms generated through community input. The reforms were designed based on input from those directly affected by the NYPD’s unlawful practices, and they are intended to develop a more thorough set of reforms than the previously court-ordered changes to certain NYPD written procedures and training materials.
The community input process, ordered by the court to remedy the NYPD’s constitutional violations and known as the Joint Remedial Process, was conducted over the last three years. It collected input from thousands of people from the communities impacted by the NYPD’s practices — as well as elected officials, religious and academic leaders, and NYPD representatives — through 64 focus groups and 28 community forums across the city. Last month, the court-appointed facilitator of the Joint Remedial Process issued a report on his recommendations to the court, and the plaintiffs are asking the court to order the NYPD to implement them.
“The facilitator's report makes it very clear that communities historically harmed by the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies demand more transparency and accountability from officers committing constitutional violations,” said Cynthia Conti-Cook, Staff Attorney with the Criminal Special Litigation Unit at The Legal Aid Society. “We think it's equally important that the NYPD do more to identify patterns of constitutional violations caused not just by rogue police officers but by their sergeants, lieutenants, and commanding officers, and urge the court to adopt the facilitator's recommendations."
The plaintiffs have asked the court to order the City to implement the Joint Remedial Process reforms because the NYPD is expected to oppose them. The reforms generated from the Joint Remedial Process will strengthen the initial set of court-ordered changes developed as part of the Immediate Reform Process, which includes reforms to NYPD written policies, trainings, supervision, discipline, and monitoring developed between the parties’ attorneys and a federal monitor responsible for overseeing reforms.
For background and other details about the facilitator’s recommended reforms, click here. See today’s filing here. Read a New York Times op-ed on the Joint Remedial Process here.
For more information, visit case pages for Floyd v. City of New York, Ligon v. City of New York, and Davis v. City of New York.

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