Pedro Serrano (police officer)

Pedro Serrano is a New York Police Department officer who testified against the department in Floyd v. City of New York, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights over the department's stop-and-frisk policies.{{cite web

|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/pedro-serrano-2013-5/

|title=Officer Serrano's Hidden Camera: The stop-and-frisk trials of Pedro Serrano

|publisher=New York Magazine

|date=May 19, 2013

|first=Jennifer

|last=Gonnerman}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/05/22/pedro_serrano_stop_and_frisk_the_heroic_new_york_city_cop_who_s_trying_to.html

|title=The Heroic New York City Cop Who's Trying to Stop Stop-and-Frisk

|first=Justin

|last=Peters

|publisher=Slate Magazine

|date=May 22, 2013}}{{cite web

|url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/pedro_serrano_s.php

|title=Pedro Serrano, Second Whistleblower Cop, Testifies In Stop and Frisk Trial; Council Moves Toward Independent Monitor

|first=Graham

|last=Rayman

|date=March 20, 2013

|publisher=Village Voice}} He also made recordings of his superiors which suggested that the NYPD required arrest quotas from patrolmen which were used as evidence in the trial.{{cite web

|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/justice/new-york-stop-and-frisk-trial

|title=NYPD officers say they had stop-and-frisk quotas

|first=Marina

|last=Carver

|publisher=CNN

|date=March 26, 2013}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/nyregion/bronx-officers-recording-suggests-race-is-factor-in-stops.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

|title=Recording Points to Race Factor in Stops by New York Police

|first=Joseph

|last=Goldstein

|work=New York Times

|date=March 21, 2013}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ordered-secret-recording-stop-and-frisk-young-blacks-males-article-1.1295665

|title=Stop-and-frisk trial: Cop's secret tape reveals boss ordered him to target blacks males ages 14 to 21

|first=Robert

|last=Gearty

|author2=Corky Siemaszko

|publisher=New York Daily News

|date=March 21, 2013}}

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