New York City's police union and the NYPD collaborated to set arrest quotas for officers, confirms an audio recording obtained by The Nation on Tuesday.
In the audio clip, recorded in 2009 by officer Adil Polanco, a union
delegate argues for "20-and-1": a monthly quota for each officer of 20
summonses and one arrest. According to several police interviewed by The Nation, some officers are forced to "seek out or even manufacture arrests" in order to meet quotas and avoid department retaliation.
The audio could be used as evidence in Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al.,
a case that opened yesterday in federal district court, whose
plaintiffs allege the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy results in racial
profiling. From The Nation:
The NYPD has just surpassed 5 million stop-and-frisks during the
Bloomberg era. Most stops have been of people of color, and the
overwhelming majority were found innocent of any wrongdoing, according
to the department’s own statistics. And though the number of stops may
have gone down recently—as pressure on the department and increased
awareness of the policy has officers and supervisors thinking twice
about how they employ the practice—the existence of quotas ensures that
New Yorkers will continue to be harassed unnecessarily by the NYPD.
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