Mayor de Blasio's administration filed court papers Thursday seeking to drop an appeal of a judge's decision ordering major reforms to the police department's stop-and-frisk policy.
The papers filed in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the city was seeking to return the case to a lower court for 45 days "for the purpose of exploring a full resolution."
Shortly after the announcement, lawyers for the plaintiffs in the stop-and-frisk cases said an agreement had been reached for a monitor to oversee reforms.
Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights say the deal calls for a monitor to serve a three-year term. The monitor will oversee a process in which those communities most affected by the stop-and-frisk tactics will provide input into reforms, and falls under a scenario outlined by a federal judge last year.
The judge ruled that the NYPD had discriminated against blacks and Latinos with how it went about stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people on the street. The judge ordered major reforms to the department's implementation of the policy.
Then-Mayor Bloomberg appealed the decision. But de Blasio, who took office at the beginning of the year, is now seeking to drop the appeal.
