By Greg B. Smith, July 6, 2020, The City.
After a judge ruled in 2013 that the NYPD had violated the rights of thousands of Black and Hispanic young men with unlawful stop-and-frisks, the department began hiring consultants to help change its policing and patch up tattered community relationships.
The NYPD brought in a Tampa firm to train cops on how to address implicit racial bias. A California lawyer group arrived to fix training on how to perform stop-and-frisks legally. A Seattle firm crafted a report on how to better teach cadets to avoid racial profiling.
All of these entities had one thing in common: All were white-owned.
An examination by THE CITY found that over the last decade, 96% of the $321 million the NYPD has spent on dozens of consultants for a wide range of services has gone to white-owned firms.
Nearly all of the people stopped by cops during Kelly’s tenure were Black or Hispanic young men, and nearly 90% of them were neither charged nor issued a summons.
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