What happened: A monitor designated by a federal court discovered that a unit of the New York City Police Department has been stopping and looking for New Yorkers, almost all black and Hispanic men. The report on the New York Police Community Response Team echoes a recent propublic investigation found by the unit, defended by Mayor Eric Adams, has been mounted with abuse.
The federal monitor discovered that, although the CRT was created initial in the first days of the Adams administration to focus on the problems of life of life, such as illegal motorcycles, its officers have been more recently Beeny.
What they said: In a sample of chamber images worn by the body, the monitor found that 41% of the stops, searches and francs of CRT officers were illegal, a much higher percentage than with other New York police units. What is more, while officers must document such stops, that the department then publishes as public data, the report found that supervisors’ officers did not do so, and when they did there was a “lack of significant review” by supervisors.
As Propublic, he previously reported that behavior, he dates back to at least 2023, when an audit of the New York Police found that the officers were badly stopping the New Yorkers and not registering the incidents. Shortly after the audit, Mayor Tok A Instagram. “Advancing with the team,” he wrote, showing a photo of him with CRT’s chaqui pants.
The federal monitor had other surprising findings. For example, he discovered that “97% of individuals stopped, frank and sought were black or Hispanic men.”
He also discovered, as reported above, that the NYPD did not have a direct leg on the CRT with the monitor. The department officials had initially tolerated the monitor that the CRT was just a “pilot program” that already ended, only for the monitor to learn later that the team was here to stay and expand real.
Background: Our March investigation detailed a wide range of worrying behaviors on the part of CRT officers who alarmed the leaders of the New York Police. In the fall of 2022, the lawyers of the department and others warned that the CRT videos that the team published on social networks showed a problematic behavior. Other incidents included a CRT commander who hit a driver, another who pushed a pedestrian to the window of a car and a third officer who led to a motorcyclist, finally killed him.
Around the last two years, New Yorkers have filed at least 200 complaints alleging inappropriate use of force by the members of the CRT, according to the records of the Review Board of the civil complaint. Another New York police team with a similar size and mandate has had approximately half of the complaints.
The ADAMS connection with CRT has been so close, the former officials said that the mayor received private access to a live diet of the cameras used by the body of the unit. This year, he chose one of the team’s leaders, Kaz Dailytry, to be public security vice mayor.
Why does it matter: The Federal Monitor for the New York Police was created a boxes after a court that the department had been involving in a generalized flickering of stop and fraction, a practice focused too much on black and Hispanic men. The seminal ruling imposed the judicial supervision, the creation of the monitor office, of the largest police department in the country. The monitor in turn presents reports of regular progress.
The last report of the monitor was presented to Judge Analisa Torres, who supervises the case and has the power to impose solutions. But whatever does Torres, the monitor findings make it clear that the problems identified by the Court still persist.
The former Chief of the New York Police, Matthew Pontillo, who wrote the 2023 Audit of the CRT, said the team’s behavior can be what is described in the monitor’s report, and pointed out that recent investigation depended on the camera footage to examine. In his own review, Pontillo discovered that CRT officers were not lighting their cameras to full capture incidents.
Legislators and civil rights defenders have asked the CRT to dissolve.
Answer: The mayor’s office refused to answer propublicic questions and, on the other hand, suggested contacting the New York Police. The department has not answered our questions.
ADAMS has previously defended the CRT. When asked about the unit at a press conference of the mayor’s office, Adams said: “CRT is here. Support for all my units. And if they do not stand up and do the job in the way they must do, those who do not want to be responsible for the hero.”
The New York Police have also defended the work of the CRT and promoted the confiscation of the illegal motorcycle and ATV unit.
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