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Police officers will be required to record the race, age and gender of most people they stop and solitary confinement will be banned in New York City jails after the City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’s veto of two criminal justice bills on Tuesday.

The 42-to-9 vote was a major defeat for Mr. Adams, and it laid bare a growing rift between the mayor and his Democratic colleagues who lead the Council.

Mr. Adams, a former police captain who ran for office on a public safety message, warned that the bills would make the city and its jails more dangerous. He fought the override until the last moment, but his efforts to persuade moderate council members to support him failed: The police accountability bill received seven more yes votes than when it first passed in December.

The two measures aim to track a broader number of police stops to guard against discriminatory patterns and to make jails more humane after the deaths of several people who were held in solitary confinement.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240131133955/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/nyregion/adams-veto-police-solitary.html

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 32 points 9 months ago (4 children)

How would keeping statistical data on who police are stopping going to make the city and jails more dangerous? What is his rationale for that statement/belief?

Because without a great argument it sounds like he feels more accountability is going to lead to more disciplinary action, which could mean less cops on the streets. Seems like what he should be pushing for, if he was actually concerned about public safety would be to start getting departments all over NY to start cleaning house of cops they know are "not the best people". Increase training on de-escalation techniques, and drill into them the consequences of trying to be Rambo with a badge.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago

He's a former police officer, this was an attempted favor to NYPD

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Or he expects the police to increase their bad faith and just reduce the number of random stops they make, which he also believes helps make things safer. Even though communities where police tried "work to rule" kind of actions actually saw improvements in safety because police harassing random people more often doesn't make anything safer.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

The police LOVE to do shit like that with zero follow-up. They never explain how, it's always just baseless statements.

[–] Kyrrrr@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

City and jails would be more dangerous for cops. If they're held accountable for their actions they might get hurt. Better to hide all that racial profiling and unjust imprisonment

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good. Get fucked you class and race traitor piece of shit!

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Cry more you bootlicking piece of shit.