Sentences with phrase «police reform proposals»

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

Police reform proposals reflect a bad habit of the coalition: why are ministers constantly making trouble for themselves?

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a series of proposals for reforming the state's criminal justice system, in response to heightened tensions over the death of an unarmed Staten Island resident after an encounter with police, as well as the recent murder of two police officers

And he consistently opposes ethics reform or disclosure requirements, including a proposal this year that would have required lawmakers to sign their names to earmarks, on the grounds that voters police lawmakers» actions.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

Advocates called the agreement a «watered down» version of the original proposal that called into question the speaker's commitment to the police reform agenda.

The speaker's request had the support of the City Council, even as police reform activists railed against the proposal.

In the Council's response to de Blasio's budget proposal, Mark - Viverito said the officers were necessary «to keep New Yorkers safe while also implementing new reforms and initiatives» such as community policing.

The NYPD inspector general proposal is part of a group of policing reforms called the Community Safety Act, which includes measures requiring officers to identify themselves and laws designed to curb racial profiling and unlawful searches.

The devices, about the size of a pager, have been a centerpiece of police - reform proposals since a Ferguson, Mo., police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown last summer, an event marked by conflicting accounts from bystanders.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) has published further proposals in relation to legal aid reform, this time covering police station and duty work.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.