Pedro Serrano is a

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officer who testified against the department in

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, a lawsuit brought by the

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(CCR) is a stop-and-frisk Frisking (also called a patdown or pat down) is a search of a person's outer clothing wherein a person runs their hands along the outer garments of another to detect any concealed weapons or objects. U.S. Law In the United States, a law enforce ...

policies. He also made recordings of his superiors which suggested that the NYPD required

arrest quota Ticket quotas are commonly defined as any establishment of a predetermined or specified number of traffic citations an officer must issue in a specified time. Some police departments may set "productivity goals" but deny specific quotas. In many ...

s from patrolmen which were used as evidence in the trial.

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