NEW YORK — Barneys New York says it will monitor the police as they monitor shoppers in its flagship Manhattan store.
An internal Barneys memo sent to store security staff Tuesday said Barneys would keep a log of which police officers use its security room. The memo said Barneys would maintain video and audio surveillance of the room where security staff and police watch monitors set up around the store.
The memo also said that any officer using the room shall provide “a reasonable description of the individual or individuals that they wish to place under surveillance and the reason the police wish to place such individuals under surveillance.”
It comes after two black shoppers said they were racially profiled at Barneys earlier this year.
In a review commissioned by Barneys and released last week, an attorney found that the luxury store does not have a written or unwritten policy to profile customers based on race.
