{"id":17013,"date":"2013-03-23T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2013-03-23T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:00:12","slug":"second-nypd-officer-testifies-on-stop-and-frisk-quotas-racial-targeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/03\/second-nypd-officer-testifies-on-stop-and-frisk-quotas-racial-targeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Second NYPD officer testifies on stop-and-frisk quotas, racial targeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following a leaked recording seeming to prove the existence of an NYPD arrest quota system, a second police officer has come forward to explain to a federal judge why he decided to record his superiors as they directed him to increase \u201cstop-and-frisks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Officer Pedro Serrano, an 8-year veteran of the New York Police Department, held back tears as he explained to the judge why he came forward: \u201cIt\u2019s very simple. I have children. I try to be a decent person<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Serrano joins another whistleblower from the Bronx, Officer Adhyl Polanco, who testified earlier this week regarding his own recordings as part of a federal class action suit against the City of New York seeking to address racial disparities in the department\u2019s street stops.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a 2003 settlement from a similar lawsuit set in place a requirement for the NYPD to track the stops. The resulting records showed that some 87 per cent of the 5 million individuals detained by police were black or Latino.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officer Serrano presented a recording from June 2010 in which a female lieutenant told officers she was \u201clooking for five<\/i>\u201d – that is, requesting a specific quota for criminal summonses from officers in the precinct. Serrano recorded another instance only a month later, in which another lieutenant made a similar reference to a \u201cfive-five-five<\/i>,\u201d indicating a quota in place for arrests, patrols and summonses at public housing projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Serrano testified that his performance evaluation subsequently dropped in every category, evidently for failing to meet the quotas. During a meeting with his supervisor, Serrano was told that his performance score was based more on his \u201cnumbers<\/i>\u201d and his \u201clow activity<\/i>.\u201d At the time, his precinct\u2019s captain is said to have informed him that the NYPD\u2019s Operations Order No. 52 allowed her to implement \u201cperformance goals<\/i>,\u201d likely a veiled reference to quotas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of Serrano\u2019s testimony supports<\/span>\u00a0accusations<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0that officers who refused or failed to meet quotas were subjected to discriminatory treatment. Serrano points to the fact that he was transferred to an undesirable post, denied a day off following a car accident near his home, and the vandalization of his personal locker – which included the placement of \u201crat stickers.<\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In its denial of the quota system and a racial profiling policy, the NYPD claims that the appearances of both stem from departmental reliance on the CompStat program, that being the heavy policing of high-crime neighborhoods – which are often predominantly minority communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, Serrano\u2019s testimony did reveal direct evidence of racial targeting at least in his precinct. In one specific recording, a lieutenant urged officers to concentrate on a region in the south Bronx: “St. Mary’s Park: go crazy in there. Go crazy in there. I don’t care if everybody writes everything in there. That’s not a problem.<\/i>\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Officer Serrano also provided recordings of an appeals meeting with Deputy Inspector Christopher McCormick, regarding his low numbers for writeups – which he was told would only have been \u201cappropriate for Central Park<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The same meeting became heated after McCormick indicated Serrano\u2019s numbers demonstrated a lack of initiative, an issue he demanded be rectified by detaining \u201cthe right people at the right time.<\/i>\u201d \u201cAnd who are the right people?<\/i>\u201d asks Serrano, to which McCormick replies \u201cI don\u2019t have any trouble telling you this: male blacks 14 to 20, 21<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Serrano\u2019s testimony was presented as part of Floyd v. City of New York, in which four plaintiffs claim they were racially profiled by the NYPD. Four police officers presented evidence for the prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

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