CONFIRMED — Ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg and His Police Chief Are Liars: Said There Were No Stop and Frisk Quotas - They HAD Quotas - New Mayor Ends Stop and Frisk Appeal

Silent March Against Racism:  New York City, June 17, 2012 (Photo by Debra Sweet)

By Mark Toor

Mayor de Blasio took a giant step Jan. 29 toward ending a controversial chapter in the history of the city’s policing, announcing an agreement to settle the appeal of a Federal court’s stop-and-frisk decision that keeps in place the court-ordered Federal monitor and community input into reforms.

“This is a defining moment in our history,” Mr. de Blasio said at a press conference in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section, which had one of the highest concentrations of stops in the city. “It’s a defining moment for millions of our families, especially those with young men of color...”

Critics of the program—who included Mr. de Blasio when he was Public Advocate—said it was driven less by reasonable suspicion than by unreasonable quotas set by precinct and borough commanders desperate to show the NYPD’s high command that they were aggressively fighting crime.

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