REMARKS
Council Member Feliz Explains His Vote to Override the Mayor's Vetoes
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Council Member Oswald Feliz, representing the Bronx, discusses the critical need for enhancing police transparency and accountability from his personal and professional experiences
While acknowledging the essential role of police in maintaining public safety, he emphasizes the importance of ensuring transparency and accountability measures to ensure community trust and safety.
Speaker 2
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Felise.
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Permission
Speaker 21
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6, ma'am.
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I vote.
Speaker 22
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Permission granted.
Speaker 21
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Thank you, majority leader.
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I vote.
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I on the override.
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As a young Latino from the Bronx, I know very well the importance of police transparency and accountability.
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As a young Latino from the Bronx, was a teenager growing up growing up on Fordham Road in the Bronx during the Bloomberg era.
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I know the importance of police transparency and accountability.
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At the same time, I know very well as a representative of District 15 in the central Bronx, the important role that police officers play in helping improve public safety.
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Public safety is obviously very complex.
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It requires many different pieces, putting them together the correct way, including and obviously, opportunity, good schools, and the terror.
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But in the Bronx, I've seen these police precincts.
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These police police officers play a very important role on the issue of public safety and deterring crime.
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And of course, the Turing harm.
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So that if our youth do wanna take advantage of opportunity.
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For example, playing in a local park, playing baseball, basketball, football, So they could do so without having to worry about other people coming to harm them as we've seen far too often in the borough of the Bronx and in the city of New York.
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Supposed I under override.
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Police officers play a very important role on public safety, but, of course, transparency and accountability is crucial.
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It's about eye, but I hope you could take a hard look at how the bill is implemented to make sure that it is properly implemented.
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To make sure there are no unintended consequences.
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Thank you, Edward.
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I On the Obride.