CCR won a court order in our lawsuit charging racial profiling in stop-and-frisks, Floyd v. City of New York, that requires the NYPD to turn over all the raw data from its stops and allows us to make it public with details removed that could be used to identify both the person stopped and the officer making that stop. This has resulted in important analyses in the press and in our case showing systematic abuses and constitutional violations by officers. There is no reason to keep the names and addresses of the men and women stopped and not issued summonses or arrested—a full 90 percent of those stopped each year—but it is critical to remember that without the rest of the data, including race, sex, location of stop, reason for stop and other details, there would be no way to hold the NYPD responsible for constitutional violations.

 

For more information on CCR’s stop-and-frisk case, Floyd v. City of New York visit our website.