Bill de Blasio said Friday his policies as mayor would make a federal monitor over the NYPD — which he supports — “a temporary reality.”
A federal judge recently appointed the Police Department watchdog after ruling that the city’s implementation of stop and frisk – which targeted vast numbers of black and Hispanic citizens – had been racially biased.
“This is a temporary reality,” de Blasio said on WOR’s John Gambling show.
“I think the fact is when we have a new police commissioner in place with a strong and independent inspector general, with our profiling bill that’s just been passed, I don’t expect that that situation with the federal monitor is going to go on too long,” he added. “I think it’s something that we’ll work through.”
De Blasio has said for months that it was the city’s inability to clean its own house that made the federal oversight necessary, even as Mayor Bloomberg and others blasted the appointment as a terrible idea.
Critics worry that the oversight, on top of the inspector general position created by City Council and a number of other built-in safeguards, would create too much bureaucracy and second-guessing of the police.
Asked by Gambling whether his position means he would work to marginalize the federal monitor, de Blasio said he simply intends to work with the judge.
“I’m saying if we’re constructive and cooperative and keep moving toward the reforms that I believe in and I know her ruling suggests, we will get it done,”
he said. “And I think it’ll hasten the day when the monitor is no longer needed.”
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