Stop-and-frisk plaintiffs ask court to include community in monitorship program 

On Thursday, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits that challenged the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s stop-and-frisk and trespass-enforcement practices, and elected officials rallied at One Police Plaza to demand an end to the NYPD’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk abuses. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit that challenged the NYPD’s racially discriminatory and unconstitutional practices filed a motion asking the court to amend its 2013 remedial order to ensure meaningful oversight in the remedial process going forward from people who are being policed. 

“In the last three years, this monitorship has veered far off course from what the court intended in its 2013 order and from what happens in most other police monitorships around the country,”  said Darius Charney, senior staff attorney and lead counsel in Floyd v. City of New York. “We are asking the court to take steps to return to the public-facing, community-driven reform process it originally envisioned.” 

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