REMARKS
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Makes a Statement on the How Many Stops Act
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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams elaborates on the objectives and potential impacts on the How Many Stops Act.
He emphasizes its role in curbing abuses while streamlining police reporting processes. He addresses misinformation spread about the bill and underscores its significance in continuing reforms in stop, question, and frisk practices.
Speaker 1
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Thank you so much.
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I'm the chair.
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That sounds awesome to see.
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Sounds very awesome.
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Peace and bless and love and night to everyone.
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I wanna thank everyone for being here.
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I have to say it is quite frustrating to be here.
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I'm sorry that we have to be here, but I wanna thank the speaker, mister chair, and cosponsa, cosma by Lexa Bill.
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And in particular, the families who are here and the advocates for helping us get here.
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Despite all of misinformation that has been spread about This this is simply a reporting bill.
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I don't say that to understate the tremendous importance of getting the information.
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Reporting that as how we helped curb the abuses of stop question and frisk.
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This is a continuation of that work and the remedial process that was put in.
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I just wanna give an example.
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I hope the media picked this up.
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Mister chair, you appear to be a black male between the ages of 30 55.
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It's a level 1 stop.
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From a 911 call, it did not raise to another level stop.
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I believe that took less than 10 seconds, and I assume it may be less once we have an app and a drop down menu that works, so it's gonna happen seamlessly.
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That's all we are asking.
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So we can have a baseline of what is going on when our police encounters or stops or however we want to call them.
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We've been trying to have a conversation with this administration for 2 years about how best implemented.
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I have not heard them publicly say that we can have that conversation until yesterday.
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So much of this misinformation.
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So much of this trying to rip the city apart on a reporting bill could have been prevented.
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If they would have had the conversation they now want to have after this council did its duty by passing a bill and doing its duty about to override it.
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This is really essential work This is not about preventing police work.
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This is police work.
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We took the patrol guide and used a construct that was already there and using the work to get the information for other stops that already exists.
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So I'm hoping that the conversations will be fruitful, but I just have to remind how much we try diligently to have that conversation saying you don't want any level 1 stops is not a compromise.
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It is a gutting of the bill.
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Having a conversation about how we can do this as seamlessly and efficiently as possible is a conversation that we have been trying to have for many years.
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So I'm happy that my colleagues We'll be overriding this.
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Hopefully, their true information about this bill will be getting out to the public, and we stop using fear to ask folks to override their intelligence and to police officers.
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Please understand this is about public safety We have you in our minds as well and look forward to having the conversation.
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This last thing I wanna thank.
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As I mentioned, all of the colleagues here But Nick Smith, Elizabeth Guzman, Jeffrey Severe, Salomon Svero, Gwen Safran, and a big shout out to Veronica Davies and Rosie Mendez.
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Really took us on their back for the past 2 years.
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Thank you.
