Following sweeping election of new leadership with clear platform of stop-and-frisk reform, group emphasizes continued harm delay has on communities; After voters reject Bloomberg policy, New Yorkers express support for turning page on counterproductive and divisive leadership and policies
On the day after New York City voters elected new leadership, city leaders and residents united on the steps of City Hall to call on the Bloomberg administration to end its fight against stop-and-frisk reforms and civil rights protections. Specifically, the group called on the administration to drop its appeal to a Federal court decision ruling its stop-and-frisk policy unconstitutional and its lawsuit to overturn a recently-passed anti-profiling law.
