REMARKS
Council Member Ariola Explains Her Vote Against the How Many Stops Act
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Council Member Ariola voices her opposition to the How Many Stops Act.
She criticizes the bill for redundancy, given existing body cameras, and for increasing administrative burdens on police officers, which she argues could detract from their presence in communities and response times.
Speaker 8
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Ariola.
Speaker 13
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Permissions to explain my vote.
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So I just wanna say that I am a mother also of 3 white boys.
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And I've had that talk with them as well, to make sure that they have their paperwork and order, to make sure that when a police officer approaches them, they roll down their window take their hood off and make sure that they treat that officer with respect.
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So it is not just for certain communities, because it happens in all communities, and we all have those talks.
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What this is another reporting bill, a reporting bill that is again redundant like many of our reporting bills.
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Because there's already cameras that are worn by police officers that we just saw this weekend depict what actually happened when our own public safety chair.
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Was pulled over.
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That is recorded already.
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What we're doing with this bill is causing more paperwork bogging down police officers, keeping them off our streets, slowing down our response times, and being in a position to have people killed and or injured because of that loss of response time.
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For that, I vote no.
