How Many Stops Act

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.

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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.

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December 5, 2023

Rise in Stop-and Frisk, NYPD Transparency Legislation Subject of Bronx Town Hall Led by Community Organizations and City Council Reps

Today, Bronx community groups, civil rights organizations, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Councilmember Alex Aviles, Councilmember Crystal Hudson and community leaders hosted a town hall about the rise of unconstitutional and racially motivated NYPD stop-and-frisk in the Bronx and legislation the elected officials are sponsoring to shed light on the extent of the NYPD’s escalated use of street stops in NYC Black and Latinx communities.

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August 23, 2023

Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and Progressive Caucus Join Community Groups and Families of New Yorkers Killed by NYPD to Demand Passage of Police Transparency Legislation

New York, NY- Communities United for Police Reform and members of the How

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June 13, 2023

Communities United for Police Reform Responds to NYPD Commissioner Sewell's Resignation

In response to yesterday’s announcement that NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell is resigning, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) issued the following statement from CPR spokesperson Loyda Colon (they/them), Executive Director of the Justice Committee: “NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell and Mayor Adams made repeated early promises to better care for and protect New Yorkers, including ensuring meaningful police accountability. By this measure, and by many, many more, Sewell’s tenure and Adams’ approach to public safety have been abject failures. Under Sewell and Adams’ watch, the NYPD has been more consistently violent and hyper-aggressive and less accountable than at any time since Giuliani was mayor.

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June 5, 2023

NYPD Monitor Report Confirms Racial Bias of Neighborhood Safety Teams

Communities for United Police Reform Reups Demands To Dismantle the Unit

New York, NY - Today, in the latest step in the yearslong lawsuit that found the NYPD’s abuse of stop-and-frisk unconstitutional, the Court-appointed monitor for the police department released a report

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March 27, 2023

Community Organizations, Advocates, and Elected Officials Rally for Passage of NYPD Transparency Legislation, the How Many Stops Act

New York, NY - Today, the families of Antonio Williams and Allan Feliz (New Yorkers killed by NYPD in 2019), Communities United for Police Reform member and partners, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, City Councilmembers Alexa Avilés and Crystal Hudson, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, other elected officials and New Yorkers from across the city rallied at City Hall Park to demand passage of the How Many Stops Act.

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Advocates, pols rally at City Hall for the passage of bills requiring more police transparency during stops

[photo caption] New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Advocates, elected officials and families affected by police violence called for passage of NYPD transparency and accountability legislation in the City Council. Photo by Paul Frangipane

02/08/2023

amNewYork

Community officials and advocates gathered at City Hall on Wednesday to call for legislation that would ensure more accountability and transparency from the New York City Police Department.

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COMMUNITY GROUPS, LEADERS, POLITICIANS, PUSH FOR POLICE REFORM LEGISLATION DURING CITY HALL MEETING

03/20/2023

Black Star News

New York, NY - As the nation continues to grieve the brutal police killings of Tyre Nichols and Anthony Lowe Jr. and grapple with a path towards meaningful police reform, families who’ve lost loved ones to the NYPD and other directly impacted New Yorkers, advocates and elected officials gathered on the steps of City Hall to push for passage of vital police transparency legislation and call for action to strengthen NYPD accountability.

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Rally outside City Hall calls for more transparency from NYPD

02/08/2023

News12

Following the death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of police officers in Memphis, advocates and City Council members are calling on the NYPD to provide more transparency in their operations.

The reform advocates were joined by community organizations outside City Hall on Wednesday, demanding new legislation be passed that would force police to report more of their interactions with the public.

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