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Surprise: Police Unions Trying To Block Stop & Frisk Settlement
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Feb 8, 2014
Modified Feb 8, 2014
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Feb 8, 2014
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Mayor de Blasio made good on his promise to nip stop-and-frisk in the bud last month when he moved to drop Bloomberg's appeal of last summer's ruling. Unsurprisingly, some people aren't too thrilled with the new mayor's move, and now police unions are trying to block de Blasio's settlement, ostensibly because their feelings were hurt.
The unions are arguing that Judge Shira Scheindlin—who made the initial ruling that stop-and-frisk violated the Constitution over the summer—"entered findings that unfairly besmirch the reputations of the men and women of the NYPD, imposed facially overbroad remedies, and exposed the NYPD to an unwarranted and indefinite period of federal supervision," according to court papers. They want the courts to continue to examine Scheindlin's decision, with or without the city's appeal.
The courts haven't granted the police unions formal recognition yet; De Blasio's settlement proposes the imposition of a federal monitor on the department for the next three years.
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