NYPD officers are now required to share their full names and ranks with people who they stop on the street, due to a new law that took effect Friday.
Officers will hand out business cards as part of the “Right to Know” act.
The cards have information on the back about how to file a complaint against an officer and even obtain body camera video.
Officers must also inform people of their right to refuse some searches.
The City Council passed the law in January after four years of battling back and forth with the NYPD.
The police union says the law will discourage officers from addressing crime.
“As we’ve said from the beginning, the ‘Right to Know’ laws will discourage police officers from proactively addressing crime and disorder and will lead to more frivolous complaints,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said. “The City Council has continuously piled on new burdens and second-guessing for our police officers, creating unnecessary distractions for them that will ultimately make NYC a more dangerous place.”
Supporters say it’s all about building trust and transparency.
“We have a lot of people that don’t know their rights, and we have a lot of people that get stopped and they don’t know what to say or what to do,” an advocate said. “They get scared right away.”
The PBA president says the law will also lead to frivolous complaints from the public.
“There’s no group that’s more compassionate than New York City police officers,” Lynch said. “We don’t need instructions on how to act like professionals. We do it each and every day. So handing a card out to a murderous thug on the street solves absolutely nothing. Allow us to do our job…The people that want and will use those cards are the ones that want to do harm to police officers. Sometimes that harm is not physical. Sometimes that’s by holding up their career with false and fake accusations.”
Now the cop shooters can get the officers home address once they have his name and can look it up, so they can do a home invasion and murder the whole family, God forbid.
There will be less cops and less important arrests that could save lives! Insanity! Actually some of the thugs prob can’t even read
this is liberal America that sometimes makes stupid laws
the people of the city council pushing for such laws to make the city totally unsafe and vulnerable for extreme criminal acts, so they themselves should be investigated who they really are and what they and their family and friends performed in the past, they must of done major criminal acts in the past – because their mind is completely a criminal mind…
Cops deserve to have their personal info kept personal. They already wear a name tag. Now they need to hand out cards with their full name so bitter people who are stopped can go look them up and hurt them?
Where are their rights?!!
i think its time for the police to stand up to this witch hunt against them yes there may be some police that are corrupt. however the vast majority are good people trying to keep us safe. its the criminals who need to be handcuffed the cops. all this kind of legislation accomplishes is getting the police to be afraid to do their jobs. more crime more people in jail more people shot all because the power was taken from the police to do their job
SO GLAD THIS HAPPENED
Examples of false police actions:
You weren’t on your cell phone but got a ticket anyway?
You pass a school bus that didn’t have any hazard lights on?
You had your seatbelt on but still got a ticket?
Tickets for Jay walking only in one part of neighborhood.
False arrests or stops without probable cause especially when they beet up the victim. etc.
Officer: “Hi there sir, I’m here to arret you for murder. Here’s my business card in case you want to sue me and have me suspended for handling you a bit too rough…”
How exactly does this help us???
Why are all the dangerous hate crimes on the streets in broad day light being dropped???
Police be strong and do something we need a safe crime free community to live in Thank You!
Vote Rebuplican this November!!!