Bill de Blasio said đ Friday his policies as mayor would make a federal monitor over the NYPD â which he supports â âa temporary realitđy.â
Federal judge Shira Scheindliđn recently appointed the Police Department watchdog after ruling that the cityâs implementation of stop and frisk â which targeted vast numbers of black and Hispanic citizens â had been racially biased.
âđThis is a teęŚ mporary reality,â de Blasio said on WORâs John Gambling show.
âI think the fact is when we have a new police commissioner in place with a strong anę§d independent inspector general, with our profiling bill thatâs just been passed, I donât expect that that sitđ°uation with the federal monitor is going to go on too long,â he added. âI think itâs something that weâll work through.â
De Blâasio has said for months that it was the cityâs inability to clean its own house that made the federal oversđight necessary, even as Mayor Bloomberg and others blasted the appointment as a terrible idea.
Critics worry that the oversight, on top of the inspector general position created by City Council and a number of other built-in safeguards, would create too much bureaucracy andꊾđŚ second-guessing of the police.
Asked by Gambling whether his position means he would work to marđ¸ginalize the federal monitor, de Blasio said he simply intends to work with the judge.
âIâm saying if weâre constructive and cooperative and keep moving toward the reforms that I believe in and I know herâ ruling suggests, we will get it done,â he said. âAnd I think itâll hasten the day when the monitor is đşno longer needed.â
Bloomberg, meanwhile, addressed the alarming spike in shootings first reporâted by The Post.
âThereâs been a blip â maybe itâs just a blip, maybe itâs a trend – in terms of shootings going up in the last few weeks,â Bloomberg said on WOR.
âWhatâs cleꌍar to me is if you take off the pressure the kids who are really dissociated from society wilꌍl start carrying guns again and then you have the spur-of-the-moment murders.â
He alsođ´ accused the federal judge Scheindlin of, âtrying to take over the police departmentâ â especially after she named 13 law professors as advisors đĽto the monitor and facilitator who will reform stop-and-frisk..
âShe now has appoinđted a panel of academicsđ to run this â this is not a cute thing to play with. We are talking about peopleâs lives,â he said.
âThis judge, sheâs one of the most⌠reversed judges around and the next mayor I just think has a moral responsibility to let the appeals court decide whatâs right. You can’t sit here and say oh sheâs right. Based on her record thereâs an awful lot of reason to believe she would be overturned. And based on the common sense! This gets worst every single day.
âThese cops want to đget home to their families, they want to be safe.â
Hizzoner had this grim question for Scheindlin:
âWhat are you gonna say if youâre the judge đ¸to any kid that gets killeđŚd after this?â