Sentences with phrase «frisk debate»
A new Quinnipiac poll highlights the racial divide in the stop and frisk debate with blacks opposing the policy, while a majority of whites and hispanics support it.
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The candidates for Queens borough president faced off in their first major televised debate earlier tonight on NY1, discussing the future of Willets Point, stop - and - frisk and the lasting controversy over term limits.
He mentioned the need for a living wage bill, which Quinn has yet to embrace, and he said «police - community relations were strained to a dangerous point in many of our neighborhoods» in a nod to the debate over stop - and - frisk, which he said «could happen to his own son.»
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.
The stop - and - frisk policy has been a hotly debated issue at City Hall with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly defending the practice as a way to reduce crime and helped drive down New York's crime rate to the lowest among the country's 25 most populous cities, as measured by the FBI.
Wading into the debate over stop - and - frisk police tactics, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask legislators on Monday for a change in New York State law that would drastically reduce the number of people who could be arrested for marijuana possession as a result of police stops.
Reflective of the tensions involved are the practical and constitutional arguments pressed with great vigor on both sides of the public debate over the power of the police to «stop and frisk» — as it is sometimes euphemistically termed — suspicious persons.