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New York City Council Votes for NYPD Oversight

June 27th

NEW YORK, NY — The New York City Council voted early Thursday to create an outside inspector to monitor the New York Police Department, and passed another bill that would make it easier to bring claims of racial profiling against the department. Taken together, the measure are called the Community Safety Act.

The move comes in response to scrutiny of the NYPD’s tactics including stop-and-frisk searches and widespread surveillance of Muslims following 9/11.

“New Yorkers know that we can keep our city safe from crime and terrorism without profiling our neighbors,” Councilman Brad Lander said at a late night meeting before the vote in the early morning.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg vowed to veto the measures, saying the NYPD will be “pointlessly hampered by outside intrusion and recklessly threatened by second-guessing from the courts.”

Both measures passed with enough votes to override a veto.

nypd_badge_1Critics argue that the higher proportion of stop and frisk searches of minority groups are in line with higher crime rates, and that the tactics are responsible for reduced crime.

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