The issue focused on the way police handled and recorded interactions with citizens in a series of videos posted by the group "CitizenWatch," which tracks mass surveillance by police across the country, and the video released last year of an incident in the Bronx that shows two people being tased for not displaying a "reasonable amount" of blood. The video was posted by the ACLU. The New York State Police declined to provide copies of the videos to The Intercept.

The New York City Council passed a law earlier in