“… NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City Council voted on Tuesday to override Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of two bills it passed last month, one banning solitary confinement in city jails, the other requiring police to record lower-level investigative stops of civilians.
In passing the bills with veto-proof majorities in December, lawmakers called solitary confinement cruel and torturous, and said it leads to heightened risks of injury or death for people in custody, particularly in the city’s violence-plagued main jail complex on Rikers Island.
Under the How Many Stops Act, police officers will have to record basic demographic information about people they question in low-level investigative stops, why they made the stop, and whether an officer used force against a person they questioned.
The New York Police Department, which is the subject of an independent monitor appointed by a federal judge over its past practice of stopping and frisking Black and Latino New Yorkers in disproportionate numbers, has joined the mayor, a former NYPD captain, in opposing the law.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled council said the law amounted to a simple extension of existing reporting requirements that “the most technologically advanced police department in the world can easily implement.” …" Reuters
“… NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City Council voted on Tuesday to override Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes of two bills it passed last month, one banning solitary confinement in city jails, the other requiring police to record lower-level investigative stops of civilians.
In passing the bills with veto-proof majorities in December, lawmakers called solitary confinement cruel and torturous, and said it leads to heightened risks of injury or death for people in custody, particularly in the city’s violence-plagued main jail complex on Rikers Island.
Under the How Many Stops Act, police officers will have to record basic demographic information about people they question in low-level investigative stops, why they made the stop, and whether an officer used force against a person they questioned.
The New York Police Department, which is the subject of an independent monitor appointed by a federal judge over its past practice of stopping and frisking Black and Latino New Yorkers in disproportionate numbers, has joined the mayor, a former NYPD captain, in opposing the law.
Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled council said the law amounted to a simple extension of existing reporting requirements that “the most technologically advanced police department in the world can easily implement.” …" Reuters