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New York, NY - Yesterday, the New York City Council held a public safety committee hearing on the NYPD’s unconstitutional use of stop and frisk and other illegal investigative encounters. The hearing also featured discussion on the implementation of the How Many Stops Act (HMSA). HMSA is a police transparency bill enacted in 2024 that requires the NYPD to collect and publicly release data on all NYPD street stops, investigative encounters and consent searches.

In light of Mayor Adam’s announcement to appoint Sanitation Chief Jessica Tisch as the new NYPD Police Commissioner and to increase the Police Department’s headcount to 34,000 officers, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) issued the following statement from Ileana Mendez-Penate, Program Director with CPR.

On October 15th, Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) and the CUNY Public Science Project released the We Deserve To Be Safe Report, one of the largest studies of its kind that documents the opinions and experiences of thousands of people from highly policed neighborhoods across New York City.

The family of Antonio Williams learned that the Civilian Complaint Review Board has decided not to substantiate disciplinary charges against Officers Robert Wichers, Keith Figueroa, Brian Mahon, and Sgt. Jase D. Valentino for unconstitutionally stopping, chasing, beating and shooting Antonio Williams and then failing to render aid on the night of September 29, 2019.