The Legal Aid Society today condemned Mayor Eric Adams for vetoing the How Many Stops Act and called on the City Council to hold an immediate override vote to codify this needed package of legislation into law.

The How Many Stops Act is a package of two bills that will require the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to record and report data from all executed street stops, investigative encounters, and consent searches.

“Police stops are at their highest level in nearly a decade, with the overwhelming majority of reported stops impacting Black and Hispanic New Yorkers,” said Jennvine Wong, Staff Attorney with the Cop Accountability Project at The Legal Aid Society.

“Current laws allowing NYPD officers to interrogate and search any New Yorker without reporting the encounter have allowed these inequalities to flourish, and City Hall must take action to protect their vulnerable constituents and hold the NYPD to a higher standard of accountability,” she continued. “We are grateful to Speaker Adams for bringing this legislation forward and to the supermajority who voted to for its passage. We condemn Mayor Adams’ veto of this critical, common-sense legislation and urge the City Council to hold an immediate override vote to ensure that this Act, which will keep all New Yorkers safer and more informed, becomes law.”