Monitors are concerned NYPD hasn't made required changes to protest response
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The city will pay $75,000 as a settlement to a lawsuit brought by a protester who was struck by an NYPD cruiser in Park Slope during the 2020 wave of Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
The total was driven up by a small group of very expensive cases, including a settlement with a man wrongly accused of assassinating Malcolm X.
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New York City police and Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan for officers to expand their attention beyond 911 calls and monitor for quality-of-life offenses that "can be precursors to violence."