REMARKS
Council Member Holden Speaks in Opposition to the How Many Stops Act
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Council Member Holden expresses strong opposition to the How Many Stops Act, detailing his concerns regarding its impact on police work.
Drawing from his experiences with police ride-alongs and listening to police scanners, Holden critiques the bill for potentially increasing paperwork and complicating police response times.
He emphasizes the practical challenges that police officers face and questions the bill's effectiveness in improving public safety. Holden argues the bill is counterproductive and suggests it lacks a clear understanding of police operations.
Speaker 2
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So we'll start with committee members Kathleen Wuhlen.
Speaker 3
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Yeah.
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I'd like to take issue what the public advocate said.
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I don't I don't question his his motives.
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I I understand that's what he feels will work.
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But as as as somebody that's been involved with the police, not only in ride alongs in the past, and it is past Saturday.
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I see police work.
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I also listen to the scanner when I'm home by my computer.
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I'll I'll just check what's going on in my neighborhood.
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Each now I have let's say I have 3 police cars out on a particular night.
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They're holding holding at least 5 jobs.
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That's 5911 calls.
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Now you're asking them to do additional reports.
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If anybody knows if anybody ever followed a police officer around, you know they have mountains of paperwork now.
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So if what the public advocates said was, well, this is only a few seconds.
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By the way, there could be up to in questions with your level 1 reporting.
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And it's and the level 1 is not a stop by the way.
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It's an encounter.
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That means the civilian does not have to talk to the police officers.
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They could just walk away, and they're allowed to do that.
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When so let's say an act accident and what the police officers that we were with on Saturday night on the ride along, if they had, let's say, a female was being assaulted.
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They have to now ask people witnesses there who might have seen it.
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So let's say 10 witnesses, they they pull aside.
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10 of them or let's say at 10 out of the 11 witnesses they pull aside.
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So they didn't see anything.
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They still have to report with this bill.
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They still have to fill out a form.
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If anybody knows about critical response time, how that is seconds matter.
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When a life is involved.
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And we're going to now ask those police officers to make a report based on those 11 encounters of which really 10 of them, we we just found out that they're not really they didn't see anything.
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So that's why I think this bill is counterproductive.
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It's going to and that's why all the police are against this because they know their job.
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I don't know if the public advocate understands, but it is there is a lot of paperwork.
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And if you were at the right alone, you saw all the paperwork.
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Thank you.
Speaker 2
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Thank thank you.
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Thank you, Kathleen Bloomberg.
