The NYPD reached a legal settlement Friday that requires it to abandon a practice in which officers use prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants and ties to other cases, a tactic critics denounced as “digital stop and frisk.”
Under the settlement, officers will only be permitted to conduct warrant searches during street stops if they have “reasonable suspicion” that the person stopped “was committing, committed or is about to commit” a crime or if there’s probable cause that they’ve done so.
One plaintiff, Luis Rios, said the practice was an extension of the NYPD’s “racist Stop and Frisk program,” which was significantly curtailed after a judge ruled in 2013 that it was a form of indirect racial profiling. Another plaintiff, Terron Belle, said the NYPD’s lengthy stops were violating “the rights of other Black and Latinx people all over the city.”
A spokesperson for the city’s law department, Nicholas Paolucci, said the settlement agreement “was limited to these individual plaintiffs and does not indicate a broad issue.” “This is another decision that empowers criminals & prevents police from doing their jobs,” City Council Member Joann Ariola, a Queens Republican, said in a tweet shared by the city’s detectives’ union. “We need to make public safety a priority in this city, but this will virtually guarantee that dangerous criminals will be able to roam at will.”
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