NYPD continues to use the "Stop & Frisk" program re-training all its officers, ignoring citizens civil rights.

Cops-turned-actors are showing police officers a better way to stop and frisk in new NYPD training on a city-block stage set in the Bronx.

At the training center Wednesday, police officers dressed as civilians and cops acted out street scenarios — performing properly executed civilian stops.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly ordered the enhanced eight-hour training for officers working in high-crime areas, following widespread public criticism of NYPD stop-and-frisk procedures.

Deputy Commissioner of Training James O'Keefe said the demo was meant to show that the department is committed to training cops on proper stop, question and frisk etiquette and showing them how to be sensitive to racial tensions in communities.

Stop-and-frisk has come under fire from civil libertarian groups, community leaders and politicians.

O’Keefe said they're emphasizing the right approach in the rollout of the new training program.

"We train our officers the right way to police a free society. We tell our officers, 'You're going to see these people tomorrow, and the next day,' " said O'Keefe.

In the first skit performed for TV crews and reporters, two cops, one white and one black, stopped and frisked a white suspect and a black suspect.

"Sir, can you step over here?" one of the officers instructed one suspect.

"I didn't do nothing wrong, man. I've been here the whole time!" one suspected shouted back.

As they had a verbal encounter, police threw them against a wall and began to pat them down. A woman, also an actor, began to videotape the scene with her phone, a popular practice in communities where such searches are common.

"I got it, I got it on camera," she said, capturing the action. "Talk to the camera."

Cops arrested the white suspect, who was identified by his red shirt and blue jeans, but released the black man because the witness in the patrol car could not identify him.

The second performance emulated a stop of a potential trespasser at a New York City Housing Authority building.

The suspect paced back and forth in the hallway and was visibly upset because his wife had locked him out of their apartment, when police approached him and asked what was wrong.

In reality housing cops routinely do vertical searches of public housing buildings and kick out or arrest individuals without identification.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-act-proper-stop-and-frisk-procedures-new-nypd-training-article-1.1099528

Second NYPD whistleblower testifies he was called a 'rat' for protesting stop-and-frisk quotas:

Officer Pedro Serrano said he was ostracized for protesting the quotas demanded at the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx. “They said, ‘Hey, this is the way it is, you can’t fight a losing battle,’” Serrano testified in Manhattan Federal Court.

Serrano, 43, a member of the police force since 2004, followed Officer Adhyl Polanco to the witness stand in the class-action lawsuit against the controversial stop-and-frisk tactics.

Like Polanco, Serrano said the quota demanded by supervisors is 20 summonses and one arrest a month. He did not specify how many stop-and-frisks he was required to make.

He also backed Polanco’s claim that the quota system had the support of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.

Serrano testified that he was once criticized by supervisors for failing to make any stop-and-frisks in a month when he surpassed his quota, issuing 20 summonses and making three arrests.

He said that since going to the Internal Affairs Bureau recently to complain, his stationhouse locker was tattooed with stickers proclaiming him a “rat.”

He said he also found the word “rat” next to his name on a roster list outside the stationhouse cafeteria. “I fear they’re going to set me up and get me fired,” Serrano testified.

Earlier Wednesday, secret recordings made by Polanco at the 41st Precinct stationhouse, also in the South Bronx, were played in court to bolster his testimony.

In the tapes, one of Polanco’s supervisors is heard demanding that cops make their “20 and 1” quota and lambasting those who came up short.

“If you want to be a zero, I’ll treat you like a zero,” patrol Sgt. Marvin Bennett fumed on tape.
Polanco also recorded his patrol commander, Lt. Andrew Valenzano, telling officers to meet their quotas by ticketing bicyclists.

“If you see people over there on bikes, carrying the bags, you know, good stops,” Valenzano says on tape. “That’s what we need.”

Officer Angel Herran, a union delegate, was taped telling officers the quota was agreed to “in this last contract.”

“They’re telling you to ‘go make money,’ ” Herran is heard saying.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/testifies-called-rat-protesting-stop-and-frisk-quotas-article-1.1294612