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A passage opening Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 short story “On The Blue Water" is currently inscribed on the wall of the 71st precinct in Crown Heights and reads, “Those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
Unfinished Business, Major Decisions and Grand Pronouncements: De Blasio Has Much To Do in Final Months as Mayor mnn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mnn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Since then, according to lawyers involved in Thursday’s court filing, Zimroth has excluded community members’ perspectives from his semi-annual assessments. Instead, they said, he has relied on NYPD data, statements of police personnel and civilian complaints that have been seen by the court as a dubious measure of whether a stop was motivated by race.
A message seeking comment was left with Zimroth, a law professor and the director of the Center on Civil Justice at New York University. A message was also left with the NYPD.
Plaintiffs in the stop-and-frisk lawsuits held a rally Thursday outside police headquarters on to announce the court filing and demand an end to stop and frisk abuses. They were joined by the city’s public advocate, Jumaane Williams, several members of city council and police reform organizations.