Sentences with phrase «number of police stops»

An NYCLU analysis shows that young black and latino men accounted for a grossly disproportionate number of police stops in 2011, and the NYPD responds.

Bratton pointed to 2011, when the number of police stops reached 685,000, while rapes, assaults and grand larcenies increased.

Not exact matches

The number of stop and searches carried out under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act has also continued to rise with a marked racial divide.

Ms. Colvin, set to begin work in two weeks, has received a number of recognitions for her reporting, including for a recent in - depth look at the city police department's controversial stop - and - frisk tactic.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, said that over the last three months his office had doubled the number of marijuana smoking cases it had stopped prosecuting and that it now planned to start throwing out more cases after the Police Department weighed in.

The number of stop - and - frisk reports filed by New York City police fell 51 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year.

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

In a meeting with Council members last Thursday, the speaker told her colleagues that the long - stalled act — which would require the city's police officers to identify themselves when stopping an individual and to let that person know that they have the right to refuse a search if the officer does not have probable cause — would not go before the Council but rather would be handled internally by the police department, despite having a sufficient number of sponsors to pass.

The commissioner also acknowledged the need for a «fundamental shift» in police department culture from «an overarching focus on police activity as measured in the numbers of stops, summonses and arrests to an emphasis on collaborative problem solving with the community.»

Standing in front of NYPD headquarters, Thompson said he would have a new police commissioner who would eliminate what he said are quotas or productivity goals that demand cops conduct a certain number of stops and frisks.

Perhaps the highest - profile unresolved issue was the marijuana proposal, which Mr. Cuomo unveiled to fanfare this month as a means to reduce the high number of arrests resulting from police stops in New York City.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police police stops.

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.

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.

The authors note that the device would likely also identify cars where the driver is sober but the passengers are not, or if there is spilled alcohol in the car, but that the device «will surely decrease the number of cars that have to be checked by police and, at the same time, will increase efficacy of stopping drunken drivers.»

We then combine ACS data with data from local sources (violent crime incidents from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the number of Metrobus and Metrorail stations from Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), and the number of Circulator bus stops from the District Department of Transportation (DDOT)-RRB-.

Answer: The DMV probably won't stop you but just realize that whenever police need to ticket a car with no tags they write «NO TAGS» in place of the license plate number.

In cities with a population of one million or more, information that establishes the personal identity of an individual who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace officer, such as the name, address or social security number of such person, shall not be recorded in a computerized or electronic database if that individual is released without further legal action; provided, however, that this subdivision shall not prohibit police officers or peace officers from including in a computerized or electronic database generic characteristics of an individual, such as race and gender, who has been stopped, questioned and / or frisked by a police officer or peace officer.

This stopped the practice of law enforcement requests to ISPs, including Rogers, Bell and Shaw, for subscriber information and made it necessary for officers to file paperwork that police say has sharply reduced the number of cases that can be pursued, says the public broadcaster.

But those who support this bill point out that it does not prohibit the departments from evaluating police officers through a different method, such as taking into consideration the number of traffic stops, arrests, and warnings the officer has given out.

Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment, adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of using cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15

Variables were created to summarize the number of occurrences of being stopped by the police, arrested, convicted (adjudicated) of the original crime or of probation violations, and sent to a youth correctional facility.