NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor on Friday vetoed bills seeking to ban solitary confinement in the city’s prisons and require greater transparency in police encounters with civilians, setting the stage for a showdown with the City Council, which says it has enough votes to override it.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said restrictions on solitary confinement would make jails more dangerous, while expanding police reporting requirements would only burden officers with paperwork, jeopardizing security. public security.
Adams, a former police captain, announced his veto of the policing bill at a news conference at city government headquarters, also attended by law enforcement officials and community leaders.
Adams said the new mandates would hurt policing, which last year led to an overall reduction in crime that included a 12% drop in the homicide rate and a 25% drop in the shooting rate.
“We don’t want to tie the hands of the police, but rather the criminals. That’s the goal,” Adams said. “We have to make sure we don’t stop them from doing their job.”
Hours later, and with less fanfare, the mayor’s office announced that it had also vetoed the solitary confinement bill, citing concerns raised by a federal monitor appointed to evaluate operations in the city’s jails.
The policing bill, known as the “How Many Stops Act,” requires officers to publicly report all investigative stops, including relatively low-level encounters with civilians.
Among other things, the legislation would require the NYPD to report where each police stop occurred, demographic information about the person detained, the reason for the encounter, and whether the encounter resulted in a use of force or police action.
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2024-01-19 21:50:50
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