PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Andrew Case, Supervising Attorney at Latino Justice PRLDEF on NYPD Discipline and Stop and Frisk
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Andrew Case, representing Latino Justice PRLDEF and involved in stop and frisk litigation, testifies about the federal monitor's discipline report on NYPD. He highlights the NYPD's failure to improve discipline and increase deference to CCRB credibility determinations as ordered by the court in 2013.
- The 503-page monitor's report shows a pattern of NYPD not properly disciplining officers with multiple substantiated CCRB complaints.
- Case cites specific examples of officers with numerous complaints who faced little to no discipline, including one who was promoted despite multiple investigations.
- The report concludes that the NYPD is in "clear defiance" of the court's opinion in Floyd v. City of New York regarding stop and frisk reforms.
Andrew Case
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afternoon.
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I'm Andrew Case, supervising attorney at Latino Justice Pearl Deaf.
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Is that better?
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Yep.
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Good afternoon.
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I'm Andrew Case, supervising attorney at Latino Justice Pearl Daf, member of CPR and one of the many attorneys on the, stop and frisk litigation with the federal monitor.
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The federal court in the stop and frisk litigation wants to hear from you and your constituents about the Monitor's discipline report that was issued in September.
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That report is 503 pages long, but thankfully, the plaintiff's group have put together a 5 page summary of its findings.
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I've distributed those.
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I've given Josh the, link to that is on the Latino Justice website and the website for every group that is involved in the monitorship.
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In 2,000 13, the court ordered the NYPD to improve discipline and that order included the line that the changes quote must include increased deference to credibility determinations by the CCRB.
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The report shows that has not happened.
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For example, between them, PO Dervont Williams and PO Asan Safar have been the subject of 23 CCRB investigations.
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The agency has substantiated 12 allegations against them.
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Their misconduct cost the city $650,000 and when the CCRB again found they'd convicted a bad stop, a deputy commissioner for trials lowered the discipline saying, quote, neither respondent has a disciplinary record.
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The report details the career of a deputy inspector we have identified as William Taylor, who over the course of 2 years was the subject of 11 CCRB investigations and 4 lawsuits, who kept getting promoted, was never punished, and retired without receiving any discipline.
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The discipline report is full of this.
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Officers are fully excused for misconduct and no officer has ever, according to the report, or rarely been disciplined for solely an illegal stop and frisk.
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The report said that in response to that court's order from 2013, the NYPD is in clear defiance of the opinion in Floyd.
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The court would like you and your constituents to respond to it about what to do about the NYPD's failure to discipline and its failure to abide by a decades old court order.
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Thank you.
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