NYC Council passes ‘How Many Stops’ policing bill
12/20/2023
Audacy
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NYPD required to report all low-level stops under bill passed by City Council
12/20/2023
CBS News
NEW YORK -- The New York City Council on Wednesday approved a controversial bill that would mandate NYPD officers file reports on all low-level stops.
Mayor Eric Adams and the police union say it will be bad for public safety.
The How Many Stops Act is sponsored by city Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
"The bill we're actually passing is not controversial at all. It was actually part of the remedial process recommendations when we dealt with the abuses of stop, question and frisk," Williams said.
NYC Council passes bill requiring cops to log every investigative encounter in face of Mayor Adams’ opposition
12/20/2023
Daily News
NYC Council approves NYPD 'How Many Stops Act' and solitary confinement ban
12/20/2023
ABC 7 NY
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City Council overwhelmingly approved two measures on Wednesday that the mayor strongly opposes, including one that would ban most forms of solitary confinement at city jails in most cases.
The other measure would require officers to report all street stops.
Advocates of the bills maintain this is about accountability and addressing racial disparities in the use of solitary confinement and how police conduct their investigations.
NYPD officers now have to report when they stop someone on the street to ask for ID
12/20/2023
Gothamist
Police are now required to report low-level encounters with citizens after the City Council passed the How Many Stops Act on Wednesday.
The bill garnered 35 votes at the Council’s last meeting of the year. Mayor Eric Adams has 30 days to veto the measure. If he does, the Council can override the veto with a majority vote.
The Failed Promise of Police Body Cameras
12/13/2023
The New York Times
NY criminal-justice groups want increased police transparency
12/07/2023
Public News Service
New York City community advocates want to reduce the number of stop-and-frisk encounters with police.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New York City reported the city's police department made more than 15,000 stops so far in 2023, the most since 2015. Data also show police primarily stopped Black and Latino people, although they were mostly innocent or not given a summons.
NYC needs transparency in policing. It’s time to pass the ‘How Many Stops Act’
12/07/2023
Amsterdam News
Public safety is a matter of urgent and rising concern among New Yorkers. The impact of the pandemic, rising inequality, a growing mental health crisis, and skyrocketing costs of living have made life for working families difficult here in New York, the largest city in the U.S. It is all the more important, in this context, that our elected officials work to improve the long-strained relationship between the NYPD and the communities it serves. Passing the How Many Stops Act would be an important step forward.
Advocates, leaders call for act to improve NYPD transparency
12/06/2023
News 12
Local leaders and advocates are proposing the How Many Stops Act, which would require the NYPD to be transparent about every encounter involving a stop and search.
This comes over a decade after a federal ruling proclaimed the NYPD's practice of stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional. The Community Safety Act passed in 2013 to ban discrimination practices by the NYPD, but advocates say they don't believe it was enough.
NYPD follows its same bad playbook on brutality in Kawaski Trawick case
10/04/2023
Daily News
In 2015, I was brutalized and body-slammed by an NYPD officer in front of a Midtown hotel for a case of mistaken identity — he apparently thought I looked like someone who committed credit card fraud, and that was a good enough reason to be violently thrown to the ground, detained and handcuffed.