New York Daily News – by DAREH GREGORIAN
Fixing stop and frisk is going to be costly for taxpayers.
The court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms to the NYPD’s controversial practice will make a whopping $43,750-a-month, according to court records.
The fee for Peter Zimroth includes work done by staff at his law firm, Arnold and Porter, but not for outside consultants who help them — and who can make up to $375-an-hour, according to an agreement with the city filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday.
The city also agreed to pay costs and expenses for the monitor and the staff.
The court-appointed facilitator — who will work with the community leaders and law-enforcement personnel — will make $600-an-hour, the filing said.
The facilitator, Ariel Belen, is a former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice who reportedly resigned from the bench in 2012 over frustration about stalled judicial pay raises.
Belen’s deputy, meanwhile, will make $350-an-hour. The payment schedules went into effect last November, the ruling by Judge Analisa Torres said.
Zimroth, who was appointed by Judge Shira Scheindlin back in 2013, did give the city a discount — he isn’t charging anything for his time prior November 2014.
In her controversial ruling, Scheindlin found the NYPD was engaging in “a form of racial profiling” with its widespread use of stop-and-frisk on black and Hispanic New Yorkers.
She ordered a monitor to help implement reforms and make sure they’re carried out, and also appointed the facilitator to gather input from the community and the cops.
The fee deal was officially signed off on by Judge Analisa Torres on Thursday, records show.
“The City negotiated an all-inclusive rate that will save taxpayers money for this three-year period. The hourly legal fees for this same work would have been much, much higher,” a city Law Department spokesman said.
Not if done right. Make the law like it is here. The cops often turn on there cell phone cams here in a stop. And you have the right to cam them all day if you wish to set and cam them. It is on cam even a cop smarting off to you. You turn it in to the oversite board. It happens 2 or 3 times in 5 years and the cop is gone for being a disgrace to the uniform. Takes but a few good people with the power to do it to have reform. Here they start a investigation. And normally the cop just quits before the investigation is done. As they know the oversite board not part of the police. Has that power. They alsogo door to door on ocation and ask your openion of the area cop you have. To many say he is a no good and he is gone. And here police often have to walk down walk ways 3 foot wide at night alone. And wish public suport. So we have some good cops here on the street. Not like America were they are afraid to step out of there car or leave the donut shop group.
Well sure….why not? Everybody knows that the best way to oversee paid criminality is to throw more criminals at it and pay em a bunch of money.
c’mon everybody… we gotta bunch of criminal facilitatin to do!!