City Council Aims To Reduce The NYPD s Footprint With Sweeping New Police Reforms
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The New York City Council announced on Friday that it plans to introduce a comprehensive bill package that would reduce the NYPD’s footprint in the city and improve police discipline and increase accountability.
Among the 11 proposals: stripping the police commissioner s final authority in disciplinary matters, ending qualified immunity for officers who commit misconduct, and giving the council the power to deny a mayor s choice for commissioner.
“Some of these issues, as I’ve been researching them, go back generations,” said one of the package s co-sponsors, Brooklyn Councilmember Stephen Levin. “So the police commissioner’s final authority on discipline that goes back 80 years.