Give rights group data, judge tells NYPD

Give rights group data, judge tells NYPD

By Thomas Zambito
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Saturday, May 31st 2008, 4:00 AM

A judge ordered the NYPD to turn over reams of information about its controversial stop-and- frisks to a civil liberties group.

Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Marylin Diamond said in her order Friday the New York Civil Liberties Union should get the same data the NYPD already gave to research groups in California and Michigan.

“The NYPD has not offered any reason why the petitioner should be denied access to the same database which has already been shared with other outside organizations,” Diamond wrote.

The NYCLU wants to do its own analysis of stop-and-frisks, which they say will reveal that most involve blacks and Latinos.

The city has not yet decided whether it will appeal Diamond’s ruling.

Give rights group data, judge tells NYPD.