Sentences with phrase «frisk came»

37 % report de Blasio's position on stop and frisk comes closest to their opinion.

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New York City voters still approve of the job Mayor Michael Bloomberg is doing but are almost evenly divided when it comes to the «stop and frisk» policing policy he endorses.

He also blamed the campaign season for heightening criticism of other police tactics, like stop - and frisk, which has come under increased attack in recent weeks.

The comments came after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the leading Democratic mayoral candidate and a usual ally of the mayor, last week threw her support behind a bill that would create a new inspector general for the NYPD, who would be charged with overseeing police policies, like the controversial stop - and - frisk practice.

«And once police abuse power when it comes to stop - and - frisk then they can do it in terms of falsely arresting people.

Ms. James, whose voice booms like a preacher's at press conferences, has emerged as one of the loudest members of the City Council when it comes to issues she's focused on, including not only CityTime but cuts to social services, the police department's stop - and - frisk policy and the controversial Atlantic Yards development project, located in her Fort Greene - based district.

The councilwoman was caught being fed an answer on stop - and - frisk by the head of the police union, Pat Lynch, and came under fire after she was caught repeatedly staring at her cell phone during a debate in May.

But it came at a time of heightened tension over the Police Department's tactic of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people in minority neighborhoods of the city.

The filing takes aim at one element of the department's controversial stop - and - frisk policy and comes after a failed bid by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to decriminalize the public possession of small amounts of marijuana, which would have eliminated the distinction between having a small amount in a pocket and holding it in your hand.

That settlement came the same day ThinkProgress released the disciplinary records of NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner with a fatal chokehold after a stop - and - frisk in 2014.

When it comes to policy, Klein has said he wants to accomplish a host of progressive goals, such as increasing the state's minimum wage, stop and frisk reform and overhauling campaign - finance laws.

She accused de Blasio of tying the hands of cops when it comes to battling those crimes — including by limiting the use of the policing tactic known as stop and frisk.

The decrease comes in contrast to concerns that the city would see a return to the high crime rates on the 1970s and 1990s as the NYPD turns away from the Bloomberg administration's heavy reliance on controversial stop - and - frisk tactics.

He says public possession, especially if it comes to light as the result of a stop and frisk search by police, should now also be classified in the same way.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that what he called the overuse of stop - and - frisk should show that «the inspector general is an idea whose time has come in New York City.»

His comments — which outraged local leaders — came as the parents of a 3 - year - old Brooklyn boy shot by thugs in a playground said they support the top cop's controversial stop - and - frisk program.

The movement on the measures comes amid a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and it follows a series of stories by The Associated Press that revealed how city police systematically listened in on sermons, hung out at cafes and other public places, infiltrated colleges and photographed people as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks.

The override vote came less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop - and - frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men.

We've come a long way but there are still inequities in our approach to policing and Mr. de Blasio can not ignore the impact «Stop, Question, and Frisk» has on communities of color.

The former city comptroller supports stop and frisk — an unmistakable nod to anxieties in African - American communities about continued street crime — but he also makes a convincing case that had he been mayor (Thompson came surprisingly close to beating Bloomberg in 2009), the egregious racial profiling that has resulted would not have developed.

Quinn's approval, which will allow the legislation to come to a vote, comes as a federal trial is beginning on a class - action lawsuit challenging the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy.

Wait untill a pedestrian comes along, then press O to frisk him / her.

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