Only days before winning the Democratic primary for mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his capacity as public advocate, called on a federal judge not to postpone reforms she ordered in the landmark stop-anād-frisk case while the Bloombeź¦Ærg administration appeals it.
āContrary to the cityās contentions, the constitutional rights of Ną¦ew Yorkers should weigh heaviest in the courtās decision whether to stay its remedies order,ā the lefty Democrat wrote in a Sept. 6 letter to Manhattan federal Judgeš Shira Scheindlin.
āA stay ā¦ will result in irreparable harm to the citizenry of New York by allowing the unconstitutional stop and frisk violations of untold numbšers of people to continue, especially and disproportionately in communities of color.ā
The news of de Blasioās letter wasnāt well received by NYPD union honchos ā especially since heās a front-runner to be the cityās nšÆext mayor.
āIf elected, it will bešÆ interesting to see how de Blasioās policing strategies evolve as hź¦°e moves from throwing the rocks at the glass house into residing in the glass house.ā said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectivesā Endowment Association.
ā Additional reporting by Jamie Schram