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NEW YORK Allegations of breed-based arrest quotas will likely be investigated by the city’s NYPD watchdog if whistleblowers prevail in their Federal Court allegations that the non-compliance with the quota derailed their careers.
The Civil Complaints Commission on Monday announced the likely investigation in response to a New York Daily News report that four other police officers have come forward to support a class action lawsuit that claims NYPD supervisors enforced a system of unofficial quotas that gave priority to arrests. blacks and Latinos.
The lawsuit was filed in 2015 by NYPD Lt. Edwin Raymond and three other cops who say they were punished for failing to meet the quotas set by top Bronx and Brooklyn commanders. About two dozen current and former officers have filed legal documents in support of the plaintiffs’ claims.
If the plaintiffs prevail in their pursuit, the CCRB would investigate arrests / summons made by officers under the supervision of the relevant commanders, as part of our new Charter mandate to investigate racial profiling and other forms. bias-based policing, the CCRB tweeted.
The agency was referring to a city council rewrite of the CCRB’s mandate that added investigations into systemic racial profiling to its responsibilities. In such an investigation, the agency would examine whether the pressure on commanders’ quotas was reflected directly in street encounters.
We can really begin to independently and impartially tackle the racialized policing that does occur in this city, CCRB President Fred Davie said earlier this month.
But the CCRB faces an uphill battle in pursuing racial bias investigations unless the state legislature passes a law giving it access to sealed police records, Davie said.
Without access to sealed arrest records and other information, it will be extremely difficult for the CCRB to investigate racial profiling or assess patterns of prejudice, Davie said at a CCRB meeting in May. .
Meanwhile, whistleblowers claim that race-based quotas could be factored into a 2019 class action lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society, a source familiar with the matter told The Daily News.
The Legal Aid lawsuit alleges the NYPD illegally detains people and then runs their names into increasingly sophisticated law enforcement databases without probable cause.
The main prosecution plaintiff, Terron Belle, claims he was on his way to his Harlem home in 2017 when four cops arrested and searched him, then detained him on the sidewalk as they scanned his name in the databases even though they hadn’t found anything illegal.
Legal Aid calls what happened to Belle’s digital arrest and search, and says it stems from police commanders’ imposition of arrest quotas.
Due to the arrest quota system that has existed and continues to exist, NYPD officers have been pressured to detain or further detain individuals for warrant searches even without reasonable suspicion, trial says .
A spokesperson for the legal department declined to comment.
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