Int 0538-2014
Use of injurious physical force by law enforcement officers.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Public Safetyintroduced 2014-11-13
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2014-11-13Passed: 2017-12-31
Summary
This bill would require that police officers only use a proportionate amount of injurious physical force during the course of their duties and only if such force is reasonably necessary to protect themselves or others from harm or death, which they perceive to be imminent in nature.
Committee on Public Safety — Police Department, Civilian Complaint Review Board, and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, courts, legal services, District Attorneys, and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
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Sponsors (3)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2014-11-13 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2014-11-13 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-06-29 · Committee on Public Safety
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2015-06-29 · Committee on Public Safety
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (2)
Committee on Public Safety · 2015-06-29 · 9:30 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2014-11-13 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (4)
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 18 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new section 439 to read as follows:
�439. Use of injurious physical force by law enforcement officers.
a. This section shall be known as and may be cited as the "Proportionate Policing Act."
b. Uniformed and nonuniformed members of the police force may use injurious physical force during the course of their duties as is proportionately necessary to protect themselves or others from the threat of harm or death, which they perceive to be imminent.
�2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
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