Our Mission & Focus
The Monitor Team works to ensure that the NYPD engages in constitutional stops, frisks, and searches.
The Monitor Team’s focus is on the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices, as well as its trespass enforcement. The Monitor Team regularly assesses the NYPD’s compliance and publicly files reports with the court detailing their findings.
Know Your Rights
When you are stopped, frisked, and/or searched by a New York City police officer, you have certain rights.
Who We Are
Latest Report
On February 26, 2026, the Monitor filed Twenty-Ninth Report, a visual snapshot of the NYPD’s Stop, Frisk, and Search Practices, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Highlights include the following:
- Compliance rates for stops, frisks, and searches in second quarter 2025 were 91%, 79%, and 77%, respectively. These compliance rates for frisks and searches are unacceptably low.
- Compliance rates for self-initiated stops also continue to lag rates for stops overall. In second quarter 2025, compliance rates for self-initiated stops, frisks, and searches were just 85%, 71%, and 60%.
- Underreporting of stops has improved but remains an issue. In second quarter 2025, officers did not prepare a stop report for 27% of the stops in the Monitor’s audit. This represented a decrease from second quarter 2024, when 37% of audited stops were unreported.
- Supervisors continue to fail to identify unlawful stops, frisks, and searches. In second quarter 2025, the Monitor found that 9% of stops, 21% of frisks, and 23% of searches were unlawful. Reviewing supervisors, however, only identified that 2% of stops, 4% of frisks, and 4% of searches were unlawful.
- NYPD use of body-worn cameras is improving. In second quarter 2025, 96% of the stops in the Monitor’s audit were properly recorded in their entirety, compared to 92% in second quarter 2024. The Monitor, however, is unable to review and audit stops in which body-worn cameras were not activated and no stop report was completed.
