""We should not see any SRG officers unless there is a tier three protest,""
""And for a protest to reach tier three, that has to be authorized by an incident commander. It has to be triggered by a set of limited circumstances. And even then, where we see SRG deployed, we should be seeing targeted law enforcement activity and not broad swaths of enforcement activity against all protesters.""
On Oct. 3, the NYPD entered the second phase of a settlement that establishes a four-tier system for responding to protests and other First Amendment activity based on turnout and conditions. The lowest tiers bar deployment of Strategic Response Group officers entirely, and SRG use is limited to tier three incidents authorized by an incident commander and triggered by a set of limited circumstances, with an emphasis on targeted rather than broad enforcement. Payne v. De Blasio et al. produced multiple reforms in 2023, created a senior NYPD oversight role, and included community engagement requirements; PBA legal challenges slowed implementation but a judge upheld the settlement and awarded plaintiffs damages.
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