"The events of last week were deeply disturbing to everyone in the city, " and the trial has helped sharpen focus on stop and frisk, but intense negotiations among lawmakers and advocates were under way for weeks beforehand, Quinn said.
He suggested more training for officers on racial profiling and stop and frisk at the police academy and on the job.
"We can't depend on Speaker Quinn to reform stop and frisk if she won't acknowledge there is a problem, " he said.
Attorneys representing the city and the police have argued that stop-and-frisk focuses on areas where crime is highest and that the percentage of minorities stopped is consistent with the percentage of crime suspects who are minorities.
Salmeron also testified that she's received considerable training on the tactic of stop, question and frisk and understands that she must have reasonable suspicion that a person is engaging in illegal activity before she stops him or her.
During the 10-week trial, city lawmakers reached agreement on a proposal to create an inspector general to oversee the police department, based largely on the outcry over stop-and-frisk and a series of stories by The Associated Press about the department's monitoring of Muslims.
Mid-trial, city lawmakers said they'd reached broad agreement on a proposal to create an inspector general to oversee the department in part because of stop and frisk and a series of stories by The Associated Press on the monitoring of Muslims.
And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.
She said talks were progressing on three companion proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk, including expanding protections against racial profiling.
The city defends the tactic, which allows officers to stop, question and sometimes frisk people on the street when there is reasonable suspicion of a crime, as a successful crime-fighting tool.
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled this year that changes to the program must be made, but she reserved judgment on what those changes will be until the other stop and frisk cases are heard.
Ohio, which held that a police officer is allowed to stop, question and frisk a person on the street if the officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime.
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One of the officers, Pedro Serrano, said a supervisor told him that 50% of his yearly evaluation was based on whether he met the arrest, ticket and stop-and-frisk numbers.
Thousands of protesters marched in silence through Manhattan on Sunday in an effort to end the New York Police Department's "stop-and-frisk" policy, which they claim disproportionately affects young black and Latino men.
"When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school, " said Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights, the lead attorney on the case.
Street stops increased substantially in New York in the mid-1990s, when, faced with overwhelming crime, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made stop and frisk an integral part of the city's law enforcement, relying on the "broken windows" theory that targeting low-level offenses helps prevent bigger ones.
The inspector general would function on a macro level weighing in on policy, while the court monitor would enforce nuts-and-bolts changes related to the stop-and-frisk policy.
Stop and frisk is a police tactic under which officers made more than 685, 000 stops last year on suspicion that a crime had been committed.
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