• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    “I know that the calendar says 2022. But a return to ‘broken-windows’ policing makes me feel like it’s 1994 and Rudy Giuliani is the mayor, stop-and-frisk is out of control, and the N.Y.P.D. is harassing Black and brown New Yorkers.” - Assemblywoman Latrice M. Walker

    https://archive.is/Qrazm (NYtimes archive link to march 2022 article about Eric Adams stop and frisk)

    Eric Adams is walking this Centrist line. Being charitable, he’s using the same techniques while removing the most abusive officers. But is he, or is it rhetoric? Feels like every word he says is just figuring out how to get away with offering us the same predatory policing as always.