Thursday’s override votes establish as law permanent checks on a tactic Mayor Bloombergand Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly have described as a matter of “life and death.” The two measures, known together as the Community Safety Act, attempt to reign in what lawmakers earlier perceived as ongoing abuses of the tactic. One of the measures creates a permanent independent inspector general, who would be a new officer in the city’s Department of Investigation. The inspector general would monitor police policies, conduct investigations, and recommend changes. The federal judge, Shira Scheindlin, has already appointed a temporary independent monitor to oversee changes in NYPD policies. She also ordered some police precincts to use body-worn cameras during their use of stop-and-frisk. This federal oversight runs for a year. The other City Council measure allows citizens to sue the NYPD in state court if they believe they have been illegally profiled. minnpost/christian-science-monitor/2013/08/stop-and-frisk-nyc-council-overrides-bloomberg-vetoes-curbing-poli?utm_source=MinnPost+e-mail+newsletters&utm_campaign=b8670d8c5f-8_23_2013_Daily_Newsletter8_23_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3631302e9c-b8670d8c5f-123605705
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:41:35 +0000
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