...“Despite a federal court finding, despite years and years of statistics that have shown severe and frankly unjustifiable racial disparities in who they are policing and how they are policing them, the NYPD continues to this day, to say, ‘Look this is not about racial bias, there's no systemic problem here,’” said Darius Charney, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who represented some of the plaintiffs in the stop and frisk trial.

Charney called the zero substantiation rate troubling, and said he believes nothing will change until the NYPD admits that biased policing is a problem in its ranks. ...

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