DeBlasio drops NYC Appeal of ruling ordering changes to "Stop and Frisk"

[stevenleser]

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/30/mayor-de-blasio-drops-nycs-appeal-of-ruling-ordering-changes-to-stop-frisk/

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration filed court papers Thursday seeking to drop an appeal of a judge’s decision ordering major reforms to the police department’s stop-and-frisk policy.

The papers filed in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the city was seeking to return the case to a lower court for 45 days “for the purpose of exploring a full resolution.”

A judge ruled last year that the New York Police Department had discriminated against blacks and Hispanics with how it went about stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people on the street. The judge ordered major reforms to the department’s implementation of the policy.

Then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed the decision. But de Blasio, who took office at the beginning of the year, is now seeking to drop the appeal.
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[sked14]

1. Good for Mayor de Blasio,

unlike Bloomie, he realizes the injustice done by the racist stop and frisk policy of the NYPD.
Maybe with de Blasio in charge now, he can reign in the NYPD and start the healing process with the black and latino communities.