Mayoral Candidates Speak Out on Stop and Frisk

For those of you that could not attend the Mayoral Candidates Forum on Policing and Criminal Justice at the Schomburg Center on June 19th,  Co-sponsored by the Community Service Society, the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, The Nation, the Ethical Culture Society, the Police Reform Organizing Project, and the Schomburg Center, you can click on the link below and view the candidates responses in their entirety.   Khalil Muhammad, Director of Schomberg Center, was the moderator for the event asked questions relating to the practice of Stop and Frisk, prisoners being kept in solitary confinement on Riker's Island for more than 15 days at at time and what opportunities might be made available to convicts leaving the prison system so that they might become productive citizens.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0haMhedYgpVXpjxzwpWi3K6eZmQjvEPh

Anthony Weiner-

"The same way Stop and Frisk, police surveillance has a counterproductive impact. It puts [people] in an adversarial place, makes communities unwilling to give information to the police. Instead of police spying, on [communities], we need them to fold into communities."

John C. Liu-

"Stop, Question, and Frisk: Let's call it for what it is- Stop and Frisk. The policing strategy [the police] should have adopted is working in partnership with communities to reduce crime."

Sal Albanese-

"I'm against quota systems- we need quality rather than quantity."

Bill Thompson-

"Stop and Frisk has been used and abused by the Bloomberg/Kelly administration."

Christine Quinn-

"If the court orders it, I will find a way to work with an outside monitor for Stop and Frisk."