Q&A
Impact of community requests on stop and frisk practices
2:05:04
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59 sec
Chief Jeffrey Maddrey explains how community requests for increased police presence and intervention often lead to more stop and frisk encounters. Council Member Diana I. Ayala responds with her perspective on balancing community safety and individual rights.
- Community members often ask police to address problems in specific areas
- These requests can lead to increased stops, challenges, and moving people along
- Many stops are based on community complaints
- Ayala acknowledges community requests but emphasizes the need to protect basic rights
- Discussion highlights the challenge of balancing community safety demands with potential negative impacts of stop and frisk practices
Jeffrey Maddrey
2:05:04
And I agree with you.
2:05:05
We don't want people stop because of their pants or drooping all the kind of sneakers that wear they wear.
2:05:10
But as you just said, you go to the meetings and you hear this from the people.
2:05:13
I've gone to numerous counts, meetings throughout the community, throughout this whole city.
2:05:19
A lot of times, I go to the go to these, community meetings, and people are asking me, oh, we want the officers to come to the building because of problems.
2:05:27
We want them to come to this corner because of the problems.
2:05:29
We want them to do this because of these problems.
2:05:32
What do you think they're asking us?
2:05:33
They're asking us to come there, to stop people, to challenge people, to move people along.
2:05:39
This happens all the time.
2:05:40
This even in your district Mhmm.
2:05:41
I've been in some of the developments where they call and said, there are people in here.
2:05:45
We're not safe.
2:05:46
And we have to go in there and say, hey.
2:05:47
Do you live here?
2:05:48
If you don't live here, you have to leave.
2:05:51
This is exactly what our officers are doing.
2:05:52
They're conducting a stop when they do that.
2:05:54
And a lot of this is based on community complaints.
2:05:58
I haven't been in community com meetings all over the city.
2:06:01
People ask us to go out there and do this.
