NEW YORK – New York City leaders will meet on Monday to demand the passage of a bill from the City Council that would require the New York Police Department to submit comprehensive reports on officers’ joint interactions with New Yorker.
The measure is called The law on the number of stops oh The law of the number of stops provide transparency into the day-to-day activities of the NYPD in Big Apple communities. Reports will not only show officers arresting people on the streets, but other types of information such as investigative encounters and searches such as DNA collection purposes.
The two bills are:
- Introduction 586: Report of all NYPD stops and investigative encounters which will require the NYPD to report all levels of street police stops and investigative encounters, including where they occur, information demographic information about the arrested person, the reason for the encounter, and whether the encounter leads to the use of force or coercive action.
- Intro 538: Report on All Police Consent Searches and will provide New Yorkers with a complete picture of the use of NYPD consent searches in communities and whether or not the NYPD adheres to the Right to know.
Police transparency is a measure proposed by leaders like public defender Jumaane Williams and adviser Alexa Aviles to monitor the NYPD and its potentially discriminatory policing practices that could criminalize and harm New Yorkers, especially blacks, Latinos and other New Yorkers of color, and make all New Yorkers less safe.