Judge names community facilitator Nicholas Turner to aid in stop-and-frisk reforms...
Source: NY Daily News
The court-appointed monitor who’s supposed to oversee reforms of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices now officially has a sidekick.
Judge Shira Scheindlin on Wednesday named Nicholas Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice, as the facilitator who will help the monitor, Peter Zimroth, develop reforms. “It’s a challenge I’m very much looking forward to,” Turner, 46, told the Daily News.
In her ruling, Scheindlin noted that Turner has a record of success in dealing with cops and communities. The Yale Law School grad has “initiated and managed projects on racial profiling in prosecution; safety in America’s prisons; sentencing reform; juvenile justice, and domestic violence,” the judge wrote.
While Zimroth is working with lawyers for the plaintiffs, the city and the NYPD to come up with immediate reforms to stop the NYPD from making unconstitutional stops, the judge ordered Turner to work on longer-term fixes in coordination with community leaders and law-enforcement personnel...
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