Mayor Eric Adams says he was one of the leading voices of the abuse of stop and frisk, but a new report shows that 24% of the stops by his Neighborhood Safety Teams were unconstitutional.

The teams were deployed over a year ago in high-crime areas of the city.

A federal monitor found that these officers had reasonable suspicion for only 69% of the stops and 73% of the frisks; for the searches, only 63% had a legal basis. The NYPD and the mayor didn’t agree with the findings.

“So when the monitor writes her report, we should also talk about how many of the almost 10,000 illegal guns we removed off our streets,” Adams said.

The anti-crime units, predecessors of these new teams, were disbanded by Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2020.

A federal monitor was appointed in the last year of the Bloomberg administration, when a court found that the NYPD was using ‘stop and frisk’ in an unconstitutional manner.

“I think this administration would do much better in examining the problems that are happening and addressing those problems, and building a culture of accountability, rather than trying to justify these unlawful stops,” Jennvine Wong, a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society, said.

The monitor, Mylan Denerstein, also found that 97% of the people stopped by the teams were Black and Latino.

The mayor dismissed the findings, calling the monitor “a statistician.”

“I gotta do the analysis of over 90% of the people who are using guns are Black and brown, over 90% of the victims are Black and brown,” Adams said.

The monitor will conduct a more thorough review and the NYPD has been ordered to develop a plan for compliance.

One more fact of the report: out of 230 car stops, only two resulted in the recovery of weapons.