The city agreed to change police practices, submit to a court-appointed monitor and pay $230,000 to lead plaintiffs in the case of Ligon v. City of New York, 12-cv-02274.
The settlement comes four years after former Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin issued an injunction against the illegal stopping of people without reasonable suspicion in public areas outside of buildings in the Bronx that take part in the anti-crime “Operation Clean Halls” program.
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