Mayor Bloomberg vows to veto bill establishing police inspector general; Defends ‘Stop and Frisk’
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday he would veto a proposal to appoint an inspector general to oversee policies at the New York City police department.
The inspector general bill before the City Council is one of a set of bills in the Community Safety Act aimed at curbing controversial NYPD practices like “stop-and-frisk,” where police detain and search city residents in high-crime neighborhoods without a warrant.
On Tuesday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a frontrunner the race for Mayor, announced her support for the inspector general portion of the act. “We can’t have a practice like this go unchecked,” she told the New York Daily News.