Sentences with phrase «of police reform»

And the final principle of our police reforms is to make sure that the police are directly accountable to the people.

As de Blasio begins his bid for re-election next year, he will almost certainly be challenged on his record of police reform.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said it would take «upwards of almost a year» for the department to put into action reforms promised as part of a deal with the mayor and City Council speaker that circumvented a package of police reform bills supported by a majority of the Council.

A package of police reform measures, known in New York's criminal justice circles as the Right to Know Act, will not be considered for passage by the NYC Council, even though the bills have broad support.

A group of police reform advocates were escorted out of Chambers for repeatedly interrupting Bratton, shouting their distain for the commissioner and telling Council members the city doesn't want or need new officers.

But their differing approaches to the seminal issue of police reform exemplify their divergent political personas, and give a preview of how they might attempt to rally support for their candidacy in a battle for the speakership.

Bob Gangi, executive director of the Police Reform Organizing Project, is at the beginning of his longshot candidacy for NYC mayor, aiming to challenging incumbent Bill de Blasio in a Democratic primary.

Robert Gangi, 73, was until recently the director of the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP), which he founded after a 29 - year career leading the prison reform organization Correctional Association (CA).

A pair of police reform measures vigorously opposed by New York City's largest officers union is moving toward passage in the City Council, a last - ditch effort by its departing speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who has staked her legacy on criminal justice reform.

The NYPD inspector general proposal is part of a group of policing reforms called the Community Safety Act, which includes measures requiring officers to identify themselves and laws designed to curb racial profiling and unlawful searches.

De Blasio, who ran on a platform of police reform, has struggled at times to balance the concerns of police reformers with the department he now oversees.

For their part, Council members have threatened to advance a series of police reform bills that are opposed by the mayor and the police commissioner.

The hearing, set for Thursday, September 15, follows shortly on the recent controversy over the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform legislation that Council Speaker Melissa

Councilmember Brad Lander said he would vote against Torres» bill because it disregarded the wishes of police reform advocates who helped push for the bill in the first place.

Cumbo said of the police reform bills, «We did not discuss those particular piecss of legislation in great detail.

When asked if the pace and quality of change at the NYPD was becoming politically problematic for Mayor Bill de Blasio — who campaigned on the theme of police reform — Torres demurred.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER At a June 11 press conference outside One Police Plaza downtown, members of the City Council, LGBT advocates, and supporters of police reform joined three gay men as they recounted allegations that NYPD officers recently assaulted and falsely arrested one of them outside the 79th precinct in Bedford - Stuyvesant.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will not allow a set of police reform bills to come to the Council floor for a vote, despite overwhelming support from her members, after the speaker and the NYPD reached an administrative compromise on the proposals.

Councilman Jumaane Williams, one of the Council's most outspoken proponents of police reform, said members are getting anxious to pass their police reform bills, which have a majority of members signed on as co-sponsors.

The news comes as some elected officials and police reform activists say that the mayor has not made enough progress in the area of policing reform.

Advocates are pushing NYC Councilmen Ritchie Torres and Antonio Reynoso, the chief sponsors of a police reform bill called the Right to Know Act, to use a motion to discharge to force a vote on the legislation by Nov. 16.

CITY HALL — A package of police reforms proposed by the City Council shows a «significant mistrust» of police officers and represents «unprecedented intrusions into the operational management» of the police department, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton testified during a council hearing Monday.

Almost two years to the day after a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner, a top lieutenant to Rev. Al Sharpton ripped into Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito as obstacles to cause of police reform.

The bill is one - half of a controversial package of police reforms jointly known as the Right to Know Act, which Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander first proposed during the Bloomberg administration, and which Torres and Brooklyn Councilman Antonio Reynoso re-upped in 2014.

Mr. Williams, an original sponsor of the 2012 bill, offered a challenge to «people to find one piece of police reform legislation that has made police officers» jobs harder or us less safe.»

[1][2] The direct election of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) was originally scheduled for May 2012 [3] but was postponed in order to secure the passage of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 through the House of Lords.

«It's still premature,» Mr. Jeffries told the Observer, praising the mayor's affordable housing plan, but criticizing what he saw as the sluggish pace of police reform.

The PBA stepped up its involvement in local races in the 2017 election cycle, hoping to increase the sway it holds over members of a body that has, in the last few years, proposed and passed a slew of policing reforms.

He chairs the Council's Committee on Public Housing and has made a name for himself in the last four years as one of the most outspoken members of the council on issues of police reform, public housing and LGBT rights.

A pair of police reform measures vigorously opposed for years by New York City's largest officers union is moving toward passage in the City Council, a last - ditch effort by its departing speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, who has staked her legacy on criminal justice reform.

Melissa Mark - Viverito, the departing City Council speaker, is pushing through a pair of police reform measures that have languished for years, but are now expected to become law.

Mr. Powell said he hoped Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson, an African - American prosecutor who won election last year on a platform of police reform, would ultimately be able to bring charges against Mr. Liang.

City Council members have decided to table a series of police reforms.

«By any measurement, «Broken Windows» is racially biased policing, and we are devoted to tarnishing [Bratton's] legacy,» said Robert Gangi, director of the Police Reform Organizing Project advocacy group.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said it would take «upwards of almost a year» for the police department to put into action reforms promised as part of a deal with the mayor and City Council speaker that circumvented a package of police reform bills supported by a majority of the Council.

Williams also chimed in when one of the other panelists took Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to task for a deal she made with former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to quash a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Know Act.

Councilman Ritchie Torres, one of two Council members rallying colleagues to revolt against Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito over a package of police reform bills, said that whenever a municipal employee engages in misconduct, it is subject to disclosure by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board — a standard he says should be applied to officers as well.

Cuomo's remarks drew praise from Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson, who said there was «definitely» room for more leadership on the issue of police reform.

Among the speakers at the news conference was the Rev. Al Sharpton, who praised de Blasio for taking the lead on income inequality, even as he cited some disagreements they two have had on the issue of police reform.

They blasted him for continuing to embrace the broken windows policing method that targets smaller crimes to prevent larger ones as well as his refusal to back the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito maintains she has been «transparent and responsible» to her colleagues after she announced that a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Know Act would be instead be handled by the NYPD — insisting that she wanted hear colleagues to hear it from her first.

And the mayor remains opposed to the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills.

He also won't back the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills.

A package of police reform measures, known in New York's criminal justice circles as the Right to Know Act, will not be considered for passage by the City Council, even though the bills have broad support.

[13] Section 57 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 directs that the voting system is First past the post if there are only two candidates for a specific Commissioner region.

Although some Council members see the departure of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton as a chance to push forward a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Know Act, the incoming commissioner said he's sticking with the back - room deal made between Bratton and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

De Blasio knew that he would be blasted by advocates of police reform, and sure enough, today those voices are loud and angry.

The City Council passed the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills, despite opposition from some Council members over a last - minute compromise made to appease the NYPD.

Inez Barron is known for her advocacy on police brutality issues, and was among the Council members who voted against the Right to Know Act, a package of police reform bills that were revised as part of a compromise with de Blasio, Mark - Viverito and the NYPD.