NYCPD backed by Bloomberg
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New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg vetoed two bills aiming to limit the NYPD’s controversial stop and frisk policy.
The New York Daily News reports that Bloomberg described the bills as irresponsible and dangerous, saying they would make the city less safe.
Together the two bills are known as the Community Safety Act. One bill aimed to create an independent inspector general to monitor the New York Police Department, and the other would expand the definition of racial profiling and allow people who believe they have been profiled to sue the police in state court.
Bloomberg said that the first measure would not improve the situation but instead create an office which would fight Commissioner Kerry on law enforcement policy and strategy.
“The consequences would be chaotic, dangerous, and even deadly for our police officers and for our city,” Bloomberg wrote. Bloomberg believes the second provision would unleash an avalanche of lawsuits against the police department, costing the city a lot of needed funding as well as a backlog of cases.
Opponents of stop-and-frisk argue that the policy disproportionally, and in most cases wrongfully, targets African-American and Hispanic men.
