NYPD Cops Fight Racial Profiling Bill

A new ad produced by the NYPD's Captains Endowment Association blasts a City Council bill on racial profiling. The association says the bill would blindfold them from doing their job.

Screenshot via CBS News.Screenshot via CBS News.New York City police unions are lining up to blast a bill they say would handcuff them from doing their job.

"The community should be outraged that this legislation is out there," Roy Richter of the Captains Endowment Association said Wednesday.

Richter is shown in a provocative ad that features police brass wearing a blindfold.

It's a campaign to defeat a bill that would expand the ban against racial profiling to include profiling by "color, age, citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation or housing status."

Read the full CBS New York story.

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