There’s something weird, and telling, about the 13th-hour vetoes Eric Adams signed on Friday of two bills related to criminal justice and public safety that the City Council passed last month with veto-proof supermajorities.
That means those bills will soon become law over his increasingly angry and anguished objections unless some lawmakers choose not to override the mayor who appears committed to playing out a losing hand.
But Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, no relation, says her members are “prepared to override” Hizzoner on both a new reporting requirement for the NYPD and a ban on solitary confinement in the city’s jails.
City Hall, for its part, says requiring police officers to fill out a scrap of paperwork on low-level investigative encounters with members of the public would be “extremely detrimental to public safety in the city” by “forcing New York City Police Department officers to spend more time filling out reports… instead of patrolling the street and keeping the public safe.”
(“Investigative” is a significant modifier here because, contrary to what NYPD leaders claim, the law would not require a report if someone asks a cop........