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12 years after historic ruling, monitor continues to report unconstitutional stops, racial profiling
February 26, 2025, New York – In response to the year-end report by the court-appointed monitor in the landmark case, Floyd v. State of New York, stop-and-frisk attorneys issued the following statements:
Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, said, “NYPD's leadership and supervisors are not committed to ending unconstitutional stops, frisks, and searches despite over a decade of monitoring. Real effort must be made to discipline officers engaged in unconstitutional conduct and limit the role of specialized units to ensure compliance.”
Co-counsel Jonathan Moore of Beldock Levin Hoffman LLP said, “Twelve years after the decision in this case by a federal court finding that the NYPD had engaged in a policy and practice of racial profiling in street encounters, the NYPD still refuses to implement real reforms to ensure all New Yorkers that this unconstitutional behavior will stop. Enough already. If officers or supervisors won’t do their job they should be fired.”
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