Elated Over Stop-and-Frisk Ruling, Council Readies Anti-Profiling Vote

Supporters of the Community Safety Act gathered outside City Hall on Aug. 13 to praise a Federal Judge’s decision that the NYPD has applied its stop-and-frisk policy in an unconstitutional manner, and to emphasize that despite the ruling it remains imperative that the City Council override Mayor Bloomberg’s vetoes of the bills that would expand the definition of racial profiling and create an independent Inspector General for the Police Department.

“The decision is a validation that our struggle has been justified since its inception,” said Councilman Jumaane Williams, a co-sponsor of the CSA. The Federal monitor ordered by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin “is narrowly focused on stop-and-frisk,” he said. “The Inspector General is not narrowly focused.”