The passage of the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act and spearheaded by the Council speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, was the most significant step yet toward reducing the burden of a two - decade -
old policing policy that treats public disorder as harbingers of more dangerous offenses, and has resulted in hundreds of thousands of outstanding criminal court warrants for minor infractions.
Not exact matches
Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap
old warrants from New Yorker's records —
policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the
police department.
But Shandre Delaney, a 57 - year -
old protester from Pittsburgh, said she was more interested in hearing about Hillary Clinton's
policy proposals to demilitarize
police departments and end mass incarceration.