Sentences with phrase «frisk era»

Police union leaders have publicly disagreed with Mayor Bill de Blasio since the mayor called for an end to «the stop - and - frisk era» during his campaign last year, and the union has escalated its rhetoric amid protests following the Garner decision.

Days before the ruling, de Blasio released a television ad featuring his bi-racial teenage son, Dante, who tells viewers his father would end the «stop - and - frisk era.»

After the event, while Buscemi sipped an espresso, de Blasio defended his recent television ad, which Bill Thompson branded a «lie» for saying de Blasio is the «only candidate to end a stop and frisk era that targets minorities.»

I am honored to stand with Mayor de Blasio as we work together to end the stop - and - frisk era and safeguard the civil liberties of all New Yorkers,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

Not exact matches

But the former NYPD official — who was also critical of the Bloomberg and Ray Kelly era of aggressive policing that led to a 600 percent jump in stop - and - frisks and about 400,000 arrests a year — was skeptical of de Blasio's new strategy.

«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

«And no matter what happens in Washington, D.C. we will never go back to the era of stop and frisk, We have left it behind us,» he continued.