Sentences with phrase «pushing police reform»

Even the city's liberal Democrat mayor, who has pushed policing reforms including the decrease in criminal arrests of low - level marijuana possession, is opposed the policy shift.

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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.

Several lawmakers said there was at least a glimmer of hope that they could win the commissioner's support for some police reform bills they have pushed, but which he and the mayor have, thus far, resisted.

More broadly, the push for grand jury reform began last year, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the choke hold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

While a major component to his platform is criminal justice reform — specifically, to «end quota - driven Broken Windows policing» — he is also pushing for reduced or free MetroCards for low - income New Yorkers, a pilot version of which got $ 50 million from the City Council Wednesday.

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.

Cuomo himself has suggested he will push for a variety of criminal justice reforms, including greater transparencies for grand juries as well as strengthening police training and requiring some officers to wear body cameras.

And their police reform proposals are providing a test of how far progressive lawmakers can push de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, who promised to change the culture within the nation's largest police department while maintaining New York's historically low crime numbers.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he plans to push for reforms in police practice and the grand jury system during the upcoming legislative session, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner.

The statement compared the current push for police reform to the desegregation movement of the 1960s.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton offered an aggressive defense of his police department this morning — ripping the city comptroller for calling city crime statistics «politicized,» pushing back against City Council reform efforts and knocking «headlines that misinform» during a morning address to the Association for a Better New York.

Mark - Viverito made the declaration at City Hall today, while pushing back on questions from reporters about a package of controversial police reform bills that have gotten bottled up in committee.

The three have been at odds over the past few months, as the Council has protested police brutality and pushed ahead with proposed reforms, even after Lynch accused City Hall of having «blood» on its hands, and Bratton suggested members focus on showing «additional support» instead.

Last month, dozens of council members, including Mark - Viverito, protested a grand jury's decision not to an indict an officer in the death of an unarmed black man on Staten Island, and members have continued to push for police reforms opposed by both Bratton and Lynch.

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 legislation is being supported by some of the same groups that helped to push de Blasio into office, such as Communities United for Police Reform.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton testified at a City Council hearing on the matter Monday morning, where he pushed back against nine police reform Police Commissioner Bill Bratton testified at a City Council hearing on the matter Monday morning, where he pushed back against nine police reform police reform bills.

The uproar over the murders of black men such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner by police officers are leading criminal justice reform advocates to push legislatures and governors to enact new policies, including the creation of independent prosecutors for cases involving cops as well as the rewrite of use - of - force laws that allow rogue cops to get off scot - free.