Mayor Adams’ controversial NYPD ‘stop-and-frisk’ teams make high percentage of unlawful stops, target mainly Black and Hispanic men, federal monitor says

NEW YORK — Mayor Adams’ NYPD Neighborhood Safety Teams tasked with keeping illegal guns off the streets carry out a high number of unlawful stops that largely target Black and Latino New Yorkers, according to a damning federal monitor’s report filed Monday in the landmark NYPD stop-and-frisk case. The court-appointed watchdog overseeing the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactics in years-old litigation, Mylan Denerstein, examined the constitutionality of stops, frisks and searches performed by covert “anti-crime” teams disbanded by Mayor Bill de Blasio and resurrected by Adams last year w...