Making good on a campaign promise, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will drop an appeal challenging a judge’s opinion that found the city’s controversial “stop and frisk” practices violated the civil rights of thousands of black and Latino residents.
According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which sued the city of New York over its policy, de Blasio agreed to two key demands: The appointment of a monitor and a process in which all stakeholders have a say in the reforms to the practice.
The New York Times reports that de Blasio made the announcement at the Brownsville Recreation Center in Brooklyn, which is part of an eight-block section of the city that accounted for 52,000 police stops in four years.
Read more about the new stop-and-frisk rules here
Source: NPR
