NYPD officers “chronically” underreported their encounters with civilians in 2023, according to two prominent civil rights organizations.
The Legal Aid Society and the Legal Defense Fund cited a report released on Monday from the NYPD’s court-appointed Independent Monitor showing that only 59% of stops when a person is briefly detained were reported in 2023.










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