The federal trial challenging the New York City Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk continued Tuesday with the playback of secretly recorded audio tapes from a Brooklyn station house.

In the 2008-2009 recordings, voices are heard telling officers of Brooklyn’s 81st precinct to get out and make the numbers, meaning they should ramp up arrests, write tickets and conduct stop-and-frisk searches.

The recordings also featured the voices of bosses who said higher-ups in the NYPD wanted activity so they could get out there and make arrests in order to get department brass off their backs.

At the same time, the recordings featured exchanges between officers talking about the need to address street crime and a number of high profile shootings in the precinct.

The former commanding officer of the 81st precinct, Stephen Morielo, testified today there are no stop-and-frisk quotas, and police are focused on getting the bad guys off the streets.

Meanwhile, families that lost loved ones to police violence and opponents of racial profiling gathered outside the courthouse to demand an end to the stop-and-frisk policy.

“I stand here today as one of the mothers who lost two family members: my nephew and my son,” said one demonstrator.

The trial is now in its third week, and the judge told lawyers Tuesday to speed up proceedings because she does not want the case to last two months.

Yesterday, the case brought up a war of words between Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and State Senator Eric Adams, after the senator suggested the NYPD uses stop-and-frisk to intimidate black and Latino men.

Adams, a former police captain who is running for Brooklyn borough president, testified Monday that in 2010 he heard Kelly talk about how to use stop-and-frisk on certain ethnic groups.

Kelly adamantly denies ever making those statements.

Lawyers for the city referred to an affidavit where Kelly denied the NYPD targets certain people.

However, the judge would not allow the affidavit to be read because Kelly is not scheduled to testify.

(Source: NY1)