NYPD abolishing 600-member plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit in ‘big cultural move’
THE NYPD is abolishing it's roughly 600-member plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit in in a "big cultural move."
When NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea made the announcement at a press conference on Monday, he said it is "in the realm of closing one of the last chapters of 'Stop Question and Frisk."
Protests sparked following Floyd's death, as people showed support for and called for an end to police brutality and systemic racism.
Cuomo also signed into action a number of other measures geared toward police accountability.
One of those includes legislation that bans false race-based 911-calls – what's become known as the "Amy Cooper bill."
The bill's nickname referred to a viral incident when a white woman in May called 911 on a Black man who asked her to leash her dog.
She falsely claimed the man was threatening her life.