Patch: NYPD Ordered To Make Retrieving Phones, Cash After Arrests Easier


“This dysfunctional and unconstitutional practice disproportionately harms the low-income communities that are targeted by broken windows policing and least able to afford these costly consequences.”

Niji Jain, an attorney in our Impact Litigation Practice discusses how our settlement in Encarnacion v. City of New York will ensure that New Yorkers who have been arrested will no longer face insurmountable obstacles to retrieving the personal property that is rightfully theirs from the NYPD.

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