The NYPD says it will cut back on it’s use of stop-and-frisk in thousands of private apartment buildings after reaching a settlement with civil rights groups.

The program called Clean Halls allows private landlords to have police conduct patrols and arrest trespassers in their apartment buildings.

But the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of Bronx residents who said they were being wrongly stopped in their own buildings.

The settlement calls for officers to be retrained, and they will be barred from approaching, questioning, or detaining people solely because they are present inside or near the enrolled buildings.

The city will also pay $230,000 to the lead plaintiffs.

(Source: NY1)