More than two years after the New York City Police Department implemented new procedures for stop-and-frisk encounters, officers continue to undercount street stops, a court-appointed monitor said in a new report.

In a report to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Peter Zimroth said that an “exaggerated fear of discipline and lawsuits” is driving some officers to not file stop reports, which were updated as part of a set of court orders in the long-running litigation related to the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk.

According to data from an NYPD audit contained within Zimroth's report, in the second quarter of this year there were 16 stop reports filed for 31 stops contained in the audit.

Without the stop reports, the monitor's report stated, NYPD leadership “will find it more difficult to know what is actually happening on the street.”

Court orders issued in the stop-and-frisk litigation also called for the NYPD to launch the body-worn camera pilot program that began in April. As of Nov. 15, about 1,350 officers in 20 precincts who work the 3 p.m. to midnight shift have been equipped with cameras.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies related to stop-and-frisk and racial profiling, but noted that the NYPD's own audits showed that a quarter of the stops made in the first half of 2017 were made without reasonable suspicion.

The CCR also expressed concerned about the fact that the department has stopped working with a leading scholar on implicit bias from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and “this lack of transparency is troubling,” the statement reads.

More than two years after the New York City Police Department implemented new procedures for stop-and-frisk encounters, officers continue to undercount street stops, a court-appointed monitor said in a new report.

In a report to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Peter Zimroth said that an “exaggerated fear of discipline and lawsuits” is driving some officers to not file stop reports, which were updated as part of a set of court orders in the long-running litigation related to the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk.

According to data from an NYPD audit contained within Zimroth's report, in the second quarter of this year there were 16 stop reports filed for 31 stops contained in the audit.

Without the stop reports, the monitor's report stated, NYPD leadership “will find it more difficult to know what is actually happening on the street.”

Court orders issued in the stop-and-frisk litigation also called for the NYPD to launch the body-worn camera pilot program that began in April. As of Nov. 15, about 1,350 officers in 20 precincts who work the 3 p.m. to midnight shift have been equipped with cameras.

In a statement released on Wednesday, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represented plaintiffs in the litigation, acknowledged that the NYPD has made progress on developing new policies related to stop-and-frisk and racial profiling, but noted that the NYPD's own audits showed that a quarter of the stops made in the first half of 2017 were made without reasonable suspicion.

The CCR also expressed concerned about the fact that the department has stopped working with a leading scholar on implicit bias from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and “this lack of transparency is troubling,” the statement reads.