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Stop-and-frisk attorneys respond to new Monitor’s report on Community Response Teams
June 3, 2025, New York – The court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case against the NYPD, Floyd v. City of New York, today released a report on the units known as Community Response Teams (CRTs). The NYPD formed CRTs in July 2022 and later claimed that these units were focusing on quality-of-life issues, as opposed to engaging in stop and frisks. A comprehensive review by the monitor, however, has found that CRTs frequently initiate illegal stops that they do not document. In fact, they are illegally stopping, frisking, and searching people at rates significantly higher than patrol officers. For CRTs, 16 percent of stops, 36 percent of frisks, and 41 percent of searches were illegal, compared to 8 percent, 11 percent, and 23 percent for patrol officers. In all, 90 percent of the people encountered by CRT officers were Black and Hispanic men.
“It does not matter how many times the NYPD relabels its units. So long as the NYPD’s Community Response Teams continue clearly targeting Black and Hispanic New Yorkers and operating with no transparency, they are nothing more than the latest attempt to justify the NYPD’s racial profiling practices under the disingenuous guise of improving ‘quality of life,’” said Celine Zhu, a Justice Fellow and attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the law firm of Beldock, Levine and Hoffman are co-counsel in the case.
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