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According to a settlement issued Wednesday, The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has agreed to clear its database of all criminal wrongdoings under the very controversial stop-and frisk practice.

In a move to settle the state lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union in 2010, the NYPD has agreed to erase the database within 90 days.

“Though much still needs to be done, this settlement is an important step towards curbing the impact of abusive stop and frisk practices,” said Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the NYCLU and lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the case.

The information that would be cleared from the electronic database includes names and addresses of all people who have been stopped, arrested or issued a summons.

NYPD officers previously said that they had quotas to reach by the end of the day, which resulted in many stop & frisk procedures that weren’t warranted.

One of the lead plaintiffs in this case, Clive Lino, weighed in:

“It is a relief to know that my personal information will be cleared from the stop-and-frisk database,” said Lino.

Lino, who is black, has been stopped at least 13 times by NYPD officers, according to the NYCLU.

“It is humiliating enough to be stopped and frisked for no reason, having your name and address kept in a police database only prolongs the indignity of it,” he said.

Glad they’re taking the first step to rectifying their wrongs, but we have a long way to go.

Source: CNN