A sharp drop in the number of stop-and-frisk encounters by the New York City Police Department might be due to officers’ uncertainty over the law, a court-appointed monitor told a federal judge Thursday.

Monitor Peter Zimroth, reporting to Southern District Judge Analisa Torres, said one explanation for the severe decline in stops since 2011 is that police have ceased stopping people even when it is “lawful and prudent.”

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