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 October 7, 2024, the Monitor filed its Twenty-Second Report, regarding underreporting of Terry stops by the NYPD, with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Highlights include the following:
- NYPD officers continue to fail to document Terry stops with stop reports, contrary to Court-ordered requirements that every such stop be documented.
- In 2023, only 59% of identified Terry stops were documented with a stop report. This represented a decrease from 2022, during which 69% of stops were documented. Both numbers fall short of compliance.
- Compliance is trending down quarter-by-quarter. In the two years sampled, compliance ranged from a high of 79% (in third quarter 2022) to a low of 41% (in first quarter 2023).
- Stop report compliance is associated with the De Boeur stop level, as determined by officers. Officers more consistently complete stop reports for encounters that they initially identify as Level 3 stops than encounters that they initially identify as Level 2 but which, upon review, should be classified as Level 3.
- Because of the number of stops completed by the NYPD, even a low proportion of undocumented stops can result in a large number of unreported stops.
- Patrol officers had a higher compliance rate than officers associated with specialized Neighborhood Safety Teams and/or Public Safety Teams.
