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Ryan Gorman
Daily Mail
July 12, 2013
New York City Police are being warned against proactively policing in response to anti-discrimination legislation passed recently by the city legislature.
The city council last month passed two bills that will make it easier to sue the NYPD for racial profiling, and did so with a veto-proof majority. In response, cops are being told to only answer radio calls and respond to crimes they see taking place – a big change from the proactive policing started in the 1990s under then-mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The first bill, which creates an inspector general to oversee the department, passed 40-11, according to reports. The second bill, which allows people to sue for racial profiling, passed 34-17. The bills garnered the votes needed to override any mayoral veto.
The NYPD Patrolman’s Benevolent Association this week sent a letter warning cops to no longer react to ‘events not occurring in the officer’s presence… [which could] subject the officer to legal action,’ according to a copy of the letter obtained by Mail Online.
A veteran officer with more than a decade on the force who spoke to Mail Online said this severely handicaps the department’s ability to protect citizens and turns them from a proactive police force into a reactive force answering radio calls.
Giving the example of an incident involving a black male in his 20s, wearing a white t-shirt, jeans and a Yankees hat, the officer said he can only get on the radio and say ‘suspect is a male wearing a Yankees hat, jeans and a white t-shirt.’
Mentioning a suspect’s race could expose the officer to a discrimination lawsuit in a department that won’t indemnify officers against infractions as minor as parking tickets, the officer says, asking ‘why should I believe they’ll have my back?’
