In re Muhammad F.

Sullivan, J. P.,

dissents in a memorandum as follows: As the testimony shows, the police stopped the taxicab in question as part of the operations of the Taxi-Livery Robbery Task Force, a plainclothes unit formed in 1992 to concentrate on crimes against taxicab drivers, who, according to statistics, were the victims of 3,600 assaults, robberies and homicides in 1992.

Concededly, there was no reasonable suspicion to justify the stop involved. Police Officer Miller testified that on the night in question he was working a 6:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. tour, the “high crime” hours, in the Manhattan North…