The NYPD has changed its policy to no longer allow prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants after the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
Fox News’ Laura Ingle reports on the crime crisis as the NYPD reports a growing number of adolescents involved in violent crime.Police Department ended a policy of prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants and ties to other cases as part of a lawsuit settlement.
"The NYPD is committed to upholding the constitutional rights of individuals, and has agreed to clarify existing policy to make it clear when officers can run a warrant query during a detainment," a spokesperson for the city's law department, Nicholas Paolucci, told the Associated Press. The NYPD settled a lawsuit Friday with stipulations that police officers only check for arrest warrants if they have"reasonable suspicion" and that the suspect"was committing, committed or is about to commit" a crime or if there's probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime.
The class-action suit, filed in 2019, challenged the stops as unconstitutional, citing the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on illegal detention and unlawful search and seizure.The Legal Aid Society, a public defender organization, filed the lawsuit with two outside law firms. "This lawsuit has always been about bringing justice to innocent New Yorkers who are baselessly detained in the street so aggressive NYPD officers can run their IDs," said plaintiffs’ lawyer Cyrus Joubin.
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