Attorneys and statistical experts refuted a recent court-appointed monitor’s report on the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk practices, saying Wednesday that it misrepresented and downplayed racial disparities.

The court filing, submitted by the Center for Constitutional Rights, was a response to a May 30 federal monitor's report overseeing reforms to those policing practices. The federal monitor, Peter Zimroth, wrote in his report that stops had plummeted from 191,851 in 2013 to 22,563 in 2015. However, a racial breakdown of the stops showed that the relative share of stops among racial groups remained constant. ...

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