Friday, May 11, 2012

Mayor Dismisses Calls For Stop And Frisk Reform, De Blasio Says He's "In Denial"

Mayor Dismisses Calls For Stop And Frisk Reform, De Blasio Says He's "In Denial"

Mayor Dismisses Calls For Stop And Frisk Reform, De Blasio Says He's "In Denial" On the heels of a "damning" report on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policies (conducted using the NYPD's own data), Public Advocate (and presumptive mayoral candidate) Bill de Blasio called on Mayor Bloomberg to issue an Executive Order dramatically reducing the number of unwarranted stops. Among other things, the NYCLU's analysis found that in 2003, the NYPD stopped 266 people for every gun recovered, but in 2011, cops had to stop 879 New Yorkers to recover a single gun. And so de Blasio has launched a citywide petition drive through the new website Bloomberg Act Now, which he hopes will be an online hub for the stop stop-and-frisk movement. The Bloomberg administration hopes people just ignore him, and issued this statement yesterday: [ more › ]
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Mayor Dismisses Calls For Stop And Frisk Reform, De Blasio Says He's "In Denial"
John Del Signore
Thu, 10 May 2012 21:58:00 GMT

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