The NYPD has come under fierce criticism in recent months after four officers were charged with the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Africanimmigrant, who died in a hail of bullets outside his home in the Bronx in February.
Mr. Charney said the Center for Constitutional Rights's call for a federal monitor over stop-and-frisk stemmed from its dissatisfaction with the settlement in a suit it filed against the NYPD following the 1999 police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Africanimmigrant.