The New York City Police Department will hand over 160,000 documents that chronicle the department’s practice of seizing cash, cars and phones from Bronx residents between June 2016 and July 2017, public defenders in the Bronx announced Monday.

The hand-over is part of a settlement of litigation brought by The Bronx Defenders and Davis Wright Tremaine that challenged the department’s refusal to provide substantial details about the department’s property seizure and civil forfeiture policies through freedom of information requests.

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