Bloomberg says it is 'always going to be the case' that stop-and-frisk can be more selective
Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly.
10:50 am Mar. 30, 20121
Talking about the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk tactic this morning, the mayor defended it in principle, but said that commissioner Ray Kelly was reviewing, on a continuous basis, the way it was applied.
"There's people that say you can do it more selectively," said the mayor, during his regular Friday morning appearance on WOR radio's John Gambling Show. "That is always going to be the case, and Ray Kelly works very hard to train ... and he and I keep talking about it all the time, and he's always reviewing his procedures. And you know, you can expect Ray to keep changing over the next year and three quarters, as we evolve. But we believe that that is one of the major reasons that there are fewer guns on the street in New York City, and that because there are fewer guns, there are a lot less murders."
Kelly responded forcefully to questions about the policy at a recent Council hearing, saying that its critics have yet to come up with an effective alternative.
Sunny Sheu was an anti-corruption whistleblower who was kidnapped and and threatened with death by two NYPD detectives from the Queens DA bureau.www.sunnysheu.blogspot....
In March of 2010, Sunny went to the CCRB to request the names of the cops that kidnapped him and the name of the person who ordered the detention.
On May 26th, 2010, Sunny sent this letter to the CCRB, complaining that they had not responded to his request:
http://sunnysheu.blogspot.com/...
One month later he was found bludgeoned to death in an alley in Queens.
The Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death "blunt force trauma to the head with skull fractures and brain injuries", but there has been no investigation by the NYPD.
If the CCRB had transparently investigated the kidnapping and death threats against Sunny Sheu, the killers would not have dared to do the job. The name of the person who ordered the kidnapping and death threats would be known to the public, as they must be under law.This case sums up the murderous cooperation between the NYPD and the CCRB.