The votes come as advocates and federal prosecutors are asking a federal judge to strip control of the city’s troubled jail system from Adams, who has aligned himself with unionized correction guards in opposition to the prospect. In a television interview earlier in the day, he said the solitary confinement bill would allow detainees to assault others in custody and be returned to the general population of city jails. “The overwhelming number of people in this city, they support their police, they want their police to do public safety and not out paperwork.” There’s a philosophical disagreement in this city the numerical minority is controlling the narrative,” Adams said during a Wednesday radio appearance following the vote. “This assault on public safety is just wrong. The desired data, Council members said Wednesday, will show who the NYPD is stopping and for what reasons.Īdams has said both pieces of legislation would make the city more dangerous.

In 2013, a federal judge ruled officers were using “stop and frisk” in a manner that disproportionately hurt Black and Latino men. The other bill in question would require NYPD officers to file reports on lower-level interactions with the public, which advocates say is necessary after police data from a decade ago exposed the excesses of an era of more aggressive policing. “No matter what terminology you use,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, sponsor of the legislation, said, “there is isolation that the U.N.

The solitary confinement bill, which applies in the city’s jail system, would limit segregation from the general population to a temporary four-hour period after an incident or confrontation and require all detainees spend at least 14 hours each day outside of their cells. “Accountability and transparency are important pathways to advance that goal.” “It is our job to contend with the legacies of harm in our communities that impact the lives of generations of Black and Latino New Yorkers and repair them,” Adrienne Adams, the Council’s first Black speaker, said ahead of the vote. The bills - passed by 35-9 and 39-7 margins with several abstentions during the Council’s last meeting of the year - are being driven by Speaker Adrienne Adams, who during her nearly two-year tenure has adopted a less confrontational posture toward the mayor than some of her predecessors. The uncharacteristically aggressive action from a legislative body that is rarely so adversarial comes as Adams is at the nadir of his young mayoralty: Voters are registering anger over his budget cuts, the FBI is investigating his 2021 campaign and he is facing continued challenges of the migrant crisis.

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