Sentences with phrase «police reform bills known»

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.

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.

The introduction of the Right to Record Act made some question Mark - Viverito's announcement that a package of police reform bills known as the Right to Know Act would be handled by the NYPD, which she disclosed to Council members last Thursday in a closed - door meeting.

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«This N.Y.P.D. bill being advanced by Torres is neither the Right to Know Act nor a compromise, but political back - room dealing and a surrender of legislative independence to the N.Y.P.D. and the mayor,» Monifa Bandele, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, said in a statement.

Instead, officials said, the bills, known collectively as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, seek to balance the goal of fairer punishment, laid out by Melissa Mark - Viverito, a Democrat who is the Council speaker, with the Police Department's desire to maintain the discretion that officers use in making arrests, for even seemingly trivial offenses, when they deem it necessary.

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

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.

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 NYC Council, even though the bills have broad support.

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.

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.

Public defenders from all over the city are trying to push Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to move forward on police reform bills, the Right to Know Act.

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.

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.

Mark - Viverito came into office vowing a more democratic approach to Council proceedings, but has come under fire for blocking a vote on a pair of controversial police reform bills called the Right to Know Act.