Sentences with phrase «frisk did»
On Monday, a judge ruled that stop and frisk did violate the rights of the plaintiffs in the case, and ordered a federal independent monitor to oversee changes to the program.
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Stop - and - frisk didn't work.
The panel, organized by Manhattan Borough President and mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer, said the number of guns recovered as a result of stop and frisk doesn't justify the damage the tactic inflicts upon police and community relations.
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Gays can't get married, women make less money, millions of children don't have access to healthcare, and cops can stop and frisk anyone they feel like in some places.
STUPIIDSMITHGATE is just a tip of the iceberg «THE FEDS» have been under the covers with agents for a long time & many people are wearing wires & Tabone knew that and he did a body frisk & FAILED to Find it if the report is correct.
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.
Williams, one of the chief advocates of curtailing NYPD stop and frisk, insisted the drop in the tactic had nothing to do with the spike in shootings.
CITY HALL — The City Council doesn't have the power to reign in the NYPD's controversial stop - and - frisk program, the Bloomberg administration argued Wednesday during a heated hearing that had members at each other's throats.
Quinn said that while she respects the commissioner, she doesn't agree with him on every issue, including stop - and - frisk.
De Blasio said in May that the NYPD is doing an «outstanding» job as it is and that because officers are spending less time on unnecessary stop and frisks and low - level marijuana arrests, they are freed up to do more of the community policing Council members are seeking the additonal headcount to perform.
He also spoke of a need for unity in New York City, where the privileged and disadvantaged alike are given a fair shot at economic success, good schools, affordable housing, and safe neighborhoods, and where people «don't have to worry about being stopped and frisked because you happen to be the wrong color.»
«When we took away that policy, the city got safer three years running and the goal has to be to bring community together and you can't do that when you have the unconstitutional use of stop - and - frisk creating a wedge.»
Dante, the Italian - named mixed - race teenager with an enormous Afro, narrates the ad, promising his dad would do more for affordable housing, tax the rich to fund pre-K education, and end stop and frisk.
A court - appointed monitor has called into question the NYPD's stop - and - frisk data, finding that some officers still don't understand the rules governing the practice and that some admitted they had filled out stop - and - frisk reports «for encounters that were not stops at all.»
«And once police abuse power when it comes to stop - and - frisk then they can do it in terms of falsely arresting people.
«You know, he was in the Assembly for all those years and didn't say anything about stop and frisk.
Thompson or De Blasio will make a good Mayor, Quinn can't be trusted she is more like a Bloomberg and she want to keep Ray Kelly in place which is not good because he is the face of stop and frisk and by her want to keep him in place will hurt her chances of being the Mayor of NYC, Anthony Weiner has too much going on in his private life and is unstable, Liu don't have enough going on to be Mayor so i believe Thompson or DeBlasio will be more honest and get the job done for the City of NY, Bloomberg was a failure from the beginning he is arrogant he don't really care for the little people.
«I think he's done some good things, he's taken some important steps on stop and frisk and neighborhood policing,» Richards said.
She vowed, if elected mayor, to work with the court - appointed monitor to implement changes, promising to use the new police inspector general position proposed by the council to «review and provide guidance to ensure that stop and frisk is done in a constitutionally sound manner.»
For example, a man who is stopped and frisked could sue, claiming police unfairly target men if they make up a greater percentage of those stopped than they do the general population.
While there are «a couple of issues» that separate them — including stop - and - frisk, which Liu wants to end and not reform as his challengers do — he said that, on the «big issues,» they're pretty much the same.
While stop - and - frisks have drastically declined under de Blasio, many minority activists feel he hasn't done enough to hold NYPD officers accountable for killing unarmed black men.
Dante's afro became a hit after he did a campaign ad about the NYPD's use of stop - and - frisk.
Gov. David Paterson seems very conflicted on a bill that would prevent the NYPD from maintaining information gleaned through its controversial use of stop - and - frisk, even if the subjects have done nothing illegal, but sounded this morning as if he might be leaning toward signing it.
Bratton echoed the new administration's call for keeping crime at its historically low levels while repairing damage done in minority neighborhoods by the heavy use of stop - and - frisk policing.
Bratton says Judge Shira Scheindlin did not rule that the stop - and - frisk practice itself was unconstitutional, but just the «racially disproportionate» manner in which it was implemented.
However, while voters supported de Blasio's pick of Bill Bratton for police commissioner (59 percent), only 48 percent agreed that the NYPD could reduce stop - and - frisk and still keep the city safe, while 62 percent said the police force was currently doing a good job.
Thompson said while he does not support the City Council measures, he said there has been «misuse and abuse» of the controversial stop - and - frisk program.
«I felt pretty safe before they started implementing stop and frisk, so I don't think it was necessary,» she continued.
«Stop - and - frisk is essential to every police department in America and it is also essential that it be done constitutionally.»
«They don't stop and frisk white people in Tottenville.
De Blasio, who ran for office on a platform of ending discriminatory policing practices such as stop and frisk, has said he does not feel the additional officers are necessary.
Bloomberg said officers are trained to know when and when they can't stop and frisk, and said generally «they do a good job.»
Manhattan Councilwoman Melissa Mark Viverito added, «To imply that we don't care just because we don't agree with [stop - and - frisk] is irresponsible and inflammatory.»
«I think if we had an inspector general at the NYPD with the independent power of oversight I don't think we would've let stop - and - frisk get out of control the way it has,» de Blasio told 1010 WINS.
Isaiah's dad, José Rivera, said stop - and - frisk «could have stopped this person, whoever did this, from having a gun.»
The NYPD has said that its surveillance is legal and that stop and frisk — a technique of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people who are seen as acting suspiciously but who don't necessarily meet the probable - cause standard for arrest — has helped drive crime down to record lows and save lives by taking weapons off the street.
He has been a strong advocate for improving relations between police and the community, speaking out against stop - and - frisk and holding free workshops on what to do if you get stopped by police.
Taking guns off the street is some of the most dangerous and important work done by cops — and it's a goal that has been one of the biggest justifications for the NYPD's aggressive use of stop, question, and frisk and of «broken windows» policing.
This selection weighed against the selection of Zach Carter as Corporation Counsel (because he reportedly befriends disgraced public official John L. Sampson, but was a John Gotti, Jr. slayer and Abner Louima defender and knows that «Stop & Frisk» is not racial profiling when done right) may suggest bi-polarity for the mayor - elect, but I trust not paranoia for me as I am at a befuddled disadvantage on what to expect next: but we can ask a de Blasio agreement with Gov. Cuomo that neither of them will be involved in selecting the next Council Chair (because that would not only be unlawful but power prejudice ugly in these times of moral decay by the elected).
«It's not the same thing to say I don't support stop and frisk, but I don't support a legal ban on profiling.
The union representing NYPD sergeants has vowed to do what it can to block the City Council from overriding Mayor Bloomberg's veto on a bill to reform the controversial stop - and - frisk policy.
The drastic reduction in stop - and - frisks from a high of more than 685,000 to roughly 46,000 last year does not mean that the correct standard is being followed, said Siegel.
The NYPD Inspector General will help review and provide guidance to ensure that stop and frisk is done in a constitutionally sound manner that focuses on the quality of the stops, not the quantity.
«When you look at the fact that the 911 calls do not match the arrests, when you look at the fact that there are more arrests in a black dominated district like Queens Village as opposed to Forest Hills... it is a clear racial pattern as it was with stop - and - frisk.»
He fiercely opposes stop - and - frisk, arguing that it is an illegal and ineffective tactic akin to using a «meat cleaver» where a scalpel would do.
«Once the frisking was done, they continued to make us stand with our hands on the fence.
Stack the Cats — Take the well - known game Tetris, remove the blocks, add Brian Frisk, add cats, what do you get?
The fact that you don't have to shuffle slowly through a maze of long lines for the privilege of being scanned and / or frisked may be the only reason you need to opt for the train and its comparitively blissful boarding process: just walk...
«If you think doing «blank» makes people safer and doing more stop and frisks makes people feel safer then you're just going to keep doing it,» Seibel said.