NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams is calling on City Council members to take a ride along with the NYPD.
He wants them to see first hand why he vetoed a controversial bill requiring officers to document every stop they make -- even minor ones.
The mayor vetoed a City Council bill called the How Many Stops Act that he says would have required extraneous documentation for every kind of stop, including minor ones considered Level 1 stops.
"Drowning officers in unnecessary paperwork, when they should be out on the street keeping us safe," Adams said. "The bill will leave taxpayers with tens of millions of dollars and NYPD overtime each year. Contrary to what some have claimed, this includes Level 1 interactions with these basic conversations with the public. And it could be intrusive, to guess the ethnicity, the age, to write down why you stopped someone in the first place."