The number of stop-and-frisk encounters is way down from the years of Mayor Bloomberg, but Peter Zimroth, the Federal monitor charged with measuring the department’s compliance with a 2013 order based on the finding that the program was being run in an unconstitutional fashion, said problems remain to be solved.
“The focus should not be on the number of stops per se, but rather on the lawfulness of those stops and whether those law-enforcement encounters are conducted in accordance with the department’s principles of ‘courtesy professionalism and respect,’” Mr. Zimroth wrote in his first report, submitted July 9 to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.
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