City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams just sold out New York, sacrificing public safety to humiliate Mayor Adams by muscling her members into overriding his How Many Stops Act veto, 42-9.
The law will waste valuable NYPD time filling out pointless forms describing each of 7 million yearly interactions with the public — when cops should be out protecting New Yorkers and fighting crime.
It’ll also mean higher police overtime costs and lower morale for the already besieged rank-and-file.
Yet the speaker pushed hard for it anyway — appeasing the anti-police radicals by intentionally hobbling cops.
But, hey, she and her members got to stick their thumbs in the mayor’s eye — something clearly more important (to them) than public safety.
So add another burden to the most minor of stops — cops trying to locate a missing person, or looking for someone who might have useful info about a crime.
What’s even the use of the info — the race, gender, age of those stopped, the reason for interaction, etc.?
Filling out the form will often take longer than the stop itself.
The race-obsessed think the data will show a “disproportionate” number of blacks and Hispanics getting stopped, but how is simply asking people questions in any way racist?
Especially when a disproportionate share of the city’s crime takes place in minority neighborhoods?
Yet the speaker didn’t care that her claim the bill is about “transparency” was a big fat lie.
Nor consider what anyone else thought — cops, district attorneys, policing experts, the mayor, constituents.
The bill will “harm public safety by creating unnecessary reporting requirements for our police officers” and “add yet another unnecessary burden on prosecutors,” who’ll have to disclose all that documentation “as part of the discovery process,” warned District Attorneys Association of New York prez John Flynn.
It’ll have “officers wasting time filing reports instead of carrying out their duties,” pleaded Yanely Henriquez, who lost her 16-year-old daughter to violence in 2022.
No matter. The speaker simply relished the chance to humiliate Hizzoner — the public’s needs be damned.
She’s deemed a moderate on the council, but there’s nothing moderate about putting selfish pride ahead of your duty to the public.
