A number of New York City residents have filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging “Operation Clean Halls,” a program permitting the police, with the consent of landlords, to patrol thousands of private apartment buildings and stop people accused of trespassing and other illegal activity. “NYPD officers routinely detain residents of Clean Halls buildings and their visitors without individualized suspicion of unlawful activity and make arrests or issue summonses without probable cause of criminal activity,” the New York Civil Liberties Union and others claim in Ligon v. City of New York, 12-civ-2274 (See Complaint).
According to the NYCLU, officers made 329,446 stops on suspicion of trespassing between 2006 and 2010 in the buildings enrolled in the program, many in predominantly black and Latino neighborhoods. But only 7.5 percent of those stops resulted in arrests and 5 percent in the issuance of a summons.
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