‘How Many Stops’ act stops cops: Letters to the Editor — Jan. 23, 2024

Robert Miller

The Issue: Mayor Adams’ veto of the How Many Stops act requiring a record of every police encounter.

I completely agree with Mayor Adams on this issue — making cops record all of their interactions is a waste of time and serves to further demoralize our police (“Who will stand up for cops?,” Jan. 22).

Instead we should test City Council members on any piece of legislation before they vote on it. They should demonstrate proficiency in understanding what is being passed.

I am sure they will change their tune once they understand the consequences of what they are voting for.

Martin Garfinkle

Staten Island

It’s easy for the City Council to vote to override Adams when public advocates like Jumaane Williams live on an army base — as everyday New Yorkers would continue to suffer as cops are tied up in more red tape.

The ‘defund the police’ movement has done nothing but hurt every single New Yorker — with the exception of our privileged council members.

Kathryn Donnelly

Queens

As a lifelong resident of Forest Hills I implore the City Council to drop support for the How Many Stops Act.

It seems as if the only pieces of legislation that get passed in the City Council are those involved in bogging down law enforcement and making the city a worse place to live.

All this legislation will do is create illusory statistics that allow city council members to forward a political narrative that is antithetical to that of their constituents.

Is it more important to garner statistics that are skewed to forward political agendas or to have the police use their time to make Forest Hills a safer place to live? I urge Adams to continue to be a leader and not a follower.

He owes it to his constituents. We deserve to be protected and not used as pawns for anyone’s political agenda.

Keith Welz

Forest Hills

So now these brain-dead City Council members want this act to pass Adam’s veto.

These council members think that we should keep the police off the street so they can spend all day filling reports out — until something happens to them or someone they know. Only then would they think that something has to be done to change that.

It seems that they only care about criminals — not their law-abiding constituents. Voting these idiots out of office will be our only way to survive.

Philip Vallone

Ossining

The Post’s Monday headline should have been “who will stand up for the citizens of New York City.”
This ridiculous bill — the How Many Stops Act — introduced by the City Council is totally absurd.

This is going to lower police morale — drive it down from where it already is — and cause more damage to the city.

The lack of common sense in our City Council is prevalent. These council members are approving it simply because they don’t like the police.

I hate to inform them but we need the police to keep both them and our city safe.

Gene O’Brien

Whitestone

It seems that every day the police are under attack in this city.

First an officer was intentionally run down by a woman stoned on marijuana. Then a cop killer is about to be set free. And finally, we have the vetoed How Many Stops act.

If we look at the faces of our council members on the front page of the Post then this starts to make more sense. Most of them believe that all cops are white supremacists and that the jails are disproportionately occupied by minorities.

As violent crime continues to rise against every New Yorker regardless of race or religion, the policies of the City Council seem to succeed in permanently driving people out of New York.

Nicholas Maffei

Yonkers

The City Council wants to take cops off the streets and burden their time with filling out useless forms detailing the ethnicity, gender and race of every person they talk to in routine police encounters.

Cops are not anthropologists.

Stan Rubin

Queens

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