NYPD ends prolonged street stops to check for warrants after lawsuit
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The NYPD has changed its policy to no longer allow prolonged street stops to check for arrest warrants after the settlement of a class-action lawsuit.
The NYPD settled a lawsuit Friday with stipulations that police officers only check for arrest warrants if they have "reasonable suspicion" and that the suspect "was committing, committed or is about to commit" a crime or if there's probable cause that the suspect has committed a crime.
The class-action suit, filed in 2019, challenged the stops as unconstitutional, citing the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on illegal detention and unlawful search and seizure.
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