The monitor, Mylan L. Denerstein, filed a report in federal court in Manhattan on Monday detailing what she described as unlawful policing.
Earlier versions of the units were responsible for a disproportionate number of police shootings, and they were disbanded in 2020.
Mr. Adams reinstated and renamed them after he took office last year, but critics were skeptical that they could be run without racially profiling young men of color, as previous units had.
Almost all of the stops made by the rebranded “neighborhood safety teams” analyzed in the report — 97 percent — were of Black or Hispanic people, and 24 percent of the stops were unconstitutional.
Of 230 car stops included in the sample, only two appear to have turned up weapons, the report said.
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