Hynes, Thompson square off in debate at St. Francis College
Incumbent Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes and challenger Ken Thompson squared off in a candidates’ forum Wednesday evening at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights.
The forum, sponsored by VOCAL-NY, the Brooklyn Reform Coalition and the Brooklyn Young Democrats, focused on issues of public safety, drug policy, public health and civil rights.
The first question posed to the candidates involved stop-and-frisk, the hot-button issue surrounding the New York Police Department’s policy of stopping individuals merely because of a reasonable suspicion that someone has committed or is about to commit a crime and frisking them for contraband.