The new form, which could be in use by the beginning of next year, will provide the person who is stopped with a receipt that includes contact information for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the public entity that investigates complaints about police misconduct, police sources said. The new forms were sparked by federal Judge Shira Scheindlin’s August 2013 ruling that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics violated the rights of minorities. The forms will theoretically give police supervisors a better understanding of whether a stop was legally justifiable, and encourage officers to be more judicious in making stops, the sources said. It’s more thorough, one source said. In theory, it would force the officer to be more careful about how the stops are conducted.... The new forms would do away with those checklists. “The new form would have more room, so the officer has plenty of space to articulate the stop,” a source said. Donna Lieberman, head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said having the narrative should make the forms a more transparent source of information. In Scheindlin’s decision, she called 250 forms “flawed” and said cops often check the boxes by rote, thus facilitating post-hoc justifications for stops where none may have existed at the time of the stop.”
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:22:23 +0000
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