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Advocates Object To Police-Union Motions On Frisks, Profiling

By MARK TOOR
Posted 1/13/14

Police-reform advocates announced Jan. 10 that they were opposing efforts by the police unions to intervene in a suit the Bloomberg administration filed to block an anti-profiling law passed by the City Council over Mayor Bloomberg’s veto.

Candis Tolliver, a senior organizer for the New York Civil Liberties Union, said after the press conference on the City Hall portico that her organization also opposes efforts by the police unions to intervene in the Bloomberg-administration appeal of U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin’s decision that the NYPD was using stop-and-frisk in an unconstitutional fashion.

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