NYC’s Dem-run council is accused of trying to DESTROY NYPD by blocking Mayor Eric Adams’ attempts to end red-tape nightmare that forces cops to document every interaction with members of the public

The Big Apple’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to override Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of a bill that will force NYPD officers to do significantly more paperwork after almost every interaction they have with a member of the public.

Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, has vehemently opposed the bill, saying it will effectively drown officers in paperwork, endangering public safety.

By a vote of 42-9, the progressive council voted Tuesday afternoon to override Adams’ veto of the How Many Stops Act.

The mayor would have needed two more votes to defeat the override. The bill was initially passed by the council in December by a vote of 35 to 9, with seven members abstaining.

The new law will require police officers to record details including the apparent age, race and gender of anyone they stop, even those they come into contact with during low-level encounters, such as preliminary questioning of someone who may have witnessed a crime.

The bill was fully supported by most members of the progressive council, including Chair Adrienne Adams (photo)

The embattled mayor has insisted the bill will only stop officers from doing their life-saving work by dumping a sea of ​​unnecessary paperwork on their desks.

He added that the bill will likely leave officers guesswork when it comes to determining demographic information about the people they interact with.

The bill was supported by the vast majority of the council, including Speaker Adrienne Adams, who says the new bill will hold officers accountable for unlawful stops and therefore reduce potential racial profiling.

NYPD officers feel demoralized by the bill — another vote of no confidence in the force by the city government.

“Today’s overreach is another step toward the City Council’s goal of destroying the world’s best police department,” said Paul DiGiacomo, president of the NYPD Detective Endowment Association.

‘Thanks to the politicians, the gap between the police and citizens will widen. And that includes the retirements of our best and most experienced investigators. Heartbreaking.’

Until the very end, Adams led an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to overturn the legislation.

His efforts included a Saturday night ride with officers in Harlem and the South Bronx, which was joined by nine council members.

He also trotted out Yanely Henriquez, a mother who continues to mourn her 16-year-old daughter, Angellyh Yambo, who was killed by a stray bullet on her way home from school in 2022.

Mayor Eric Adams has insisted the How Many Stops Act will bog down officers with mountains of paperwork that will prevent them from doing their jobs.

The bill would force officers to document demographic data about individuals during every low-stakes encounter

“This is not a police stop bill, this is a police interaction bill, which is a little bit different and I don’t think the council members had that in mind when they introduced this,” Adams said.

“Every second and every minute should be spent finding bad people – not doing paperwork,” he said during a CBS interview.

however, the This is reported by the New York Post that some council members say Adams didn’t do enough to sway voters who might have won over.

“If the mayor can’t take ten minutes out of his day to call members, I wonder how serious he is about this,” a council source told the newspaper ahead of the vote.

Adams was accused of conducting a publicity blitz, rather than picking up the phone to call members whose votes might have been winnable. The mayor claims to have contacted council members directly.

In a further blow dealt to the mayor on Tuesday, the City Council also overruled Adams’ veto of a bill banning solitary confinement in New York prisons.

Department of Correction guards will not be allowed to isolate violent inmates for more than four hours in what will be called a “de-escalation” unit.

Adams failed to convince two more council members to vote against the bill

A man, right, is surrounded by three units of New York Police Department officers as they try to calm the man down on October 3, 2023 in New York City. The agitated man claimed he and his car had been offensive to an inspection

Over the past two years, NYPD officers have been handing over their badges in record numbers, a pattern Adams has called a “law enforcement crisis.”

In 2022, about 3,700 officers surrendered their badges, the highest number since the September 11 attacks more than twenty years ago.

Last year, nearly 250 officers quit in the first two months of the year.

This time last year, nearly every police department was understaffed, driving up response times and forcing the mayor’s office to focus on the problem of police recruitment, which today’s bill passage does not help.