Know Your Rights With the NYPD’s New ‘Neighborhood Safety Teams’

As part of his Blueprint Against Violence released in January, he outlined the return of the anti-gun teams as a way to tackle a rise in shootings, specifically.
Now being called Neighborhood Safety Teams (NSTs), squads in unmarked vehicles and “modified” uniforms across 30 precincts will be composed of five police officers and one sergeant each.
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Basic constitutional protections for a police stop still apply, the foremost of which is:
You have the right to remain silent, even before that phrase is specifically said.
“You always have the right to say, ‘I would like to remain silent.’ You don’t have to be read your Miranda rights to say that. You can say that of your own free will,” said Jacqueline Gosdigian, senior policy counsel at Brooklyn Defender Services.
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