The New York Civil Liberties Union released a new report Nov. 14 documenting “the unprecedented rise in discriminatory policing” under Mayor Bloomberg and suggesting reforms Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio can institute “to ensure that all New Yorkers can trust and respect the NYPD.”
“For more than a decade, New Yorkers living under the Bloomberg regime have experienced intrusive, abusive and excessive policing,” executive director Donna Lieberman said at a press conference. “People of color have borne an outsize burden of this injustice, but it impacts every New Yorker and the safety of the city as a whole when entire communities are afraid of the very police force that is supposed to protect them.”
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