Witnesses reported that the surprisingly light police deployment had done little to frisk fans for weapons before a tense standoff between longtime rival teams.
It was a message the mayor has sent before, amid an ongoing federal civil rights trial over stop-and-frisk and City Council hearings to set new rules for the tactic.
He suggested more training for officers on racial profiling and stop and frisk at the police academy and on the job.
The trial in Manhattan is seeking to reform the practice of stop, question and frisk, a contentious law enforcement tactic, and lawyers for the plaintiffs are seeking a court-appointment monitor to oversee the changes.
The Center for Constitutional Rights claims stop-and-frisk violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
But after the important things are accounted for, we then have to hope that our frisk of the room has been enough.
The Center for Constitutional Rights claims the stop-and-frisk policy violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which prohibits illegal searches and seizures as well as the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which is often invoked to fight laws seen as racially discriminatory.
Mr. Charney said the Center for Constitutional Rights's call for a federal monitor over stop-and-frisk stemmed from its dissatisfaction with the settlement in a suit it filed against the NYPD following the 1999 police shooting death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant.
Stop-and-frisk has taken center-stage in this year's race for mayor, with most Democratic candidates saying the policy needs to be changed.
In his speech, Mr. Bloomberg scolded critics including civil liberties groups and mayoral candidates for overlooking the shooting while condemning stop-and-frisk practices, which he argues are an important tool in keeping guns off city streets.
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"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.
Bloomberg's news conference also coincided with a civil trial challenging the constitutionality of one of the city's strategies for taking guns off the street, a tactic known as "stop and frisk" in which officers have halted, questioned and often searched hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent people.
NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy is extremely unpopular with minorities, who feel they often get stopped by police officers for no good reason.
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