The federal monitor overseeing changes to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy said Thursday the reform effort is moving in a positive direction, but some officers now avoid making or documenting stops, possibly because they fear legal and departmental reproach.
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A federal judge ordered changes in 2013 after a class-action civil rights trial in which black and Hispanic men said they had been unfairly targeted by police because of their race.
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Jen Nessel, a spokeswoman with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said the findings are a reminder that the reform process is a work in progress.
“This is no mission-accomplished moment,” Nessel told WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond. “There’s a great deal of work to be done given the broad range of reforms identified by the court as necessary to rectify years of unconstitutional and discriminatory policing.”