Metro

Quinn all in against stop-and-frisk

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will file court papers tomorrow urging a federal judge to keep the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk monitor in place while the Bloomberg administration appeals the ruling.

“The court’s decision, along with the inspector-general bill I recently passed with my council colleagues, will go a long way to ending the unconstitutional use of stop-and-frisk in New York City,” the Democratic mayoral hopeful said at a press conference.

City lawyers last week asked Judge Shira Scheindlin to hold off on implementing the reforms she ordered to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, warning that that the restrictions could lead to a huge spike in crime and saying her ruling against stop-and-frisk was “rife with errors of law.”

But Quinn argued the proposed delay “insults the hundreds of thousands of young men of color who are needlessly stopped every year.”

Bill de Blasio campaign manager Bill Hyers slammed Quinn for the move one week before the primary election, calling it a “desperate attempt to distract attention from her eight-year record of standing with Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly as the overuse and abuse of stop-and-frisk exploded.” “This isn’t about the mayor’s race,” Quinn said. “It’s about making sure the judge’s ruling gets implemented.”

A spokesman for Quinn said the deadline to file a brief in the case is Friday.