Vote set Thurs. on new NYPD oversight, after veto. It will be overturned, no one cares enough about Black or latino people to stop the N.Y.P.D.

NEW YORK (AP) — After a federal judge rapped one of the New York Police Department's core tactics as racially discriminatory and appointed a monitor to oversee changes, lawmakers say they are set to add another dose of oversight for the nation's biggest police force.

In a showdown with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police leaders, the City Council was due to vote Thursday on overriding Bloomberg's vetoes to establish an inspector general for the NYPD and make it easier to take discriminatory-policing claims to court.

The measures mark the most aggressive legislative effort in years to put new checks on the NYPD. And the vote comes less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop and frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men. The city is appealing.

Thursday's vote could be very close; the lawsuit-related component of the legislation passed in June with just the 34 votes needed to override a veto.

But "the number of votes needed will be here," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Wednesday, though she reiterated her own opposition to that provision. She supports the inspector general.

Civil rights groups and minority advocates have pushed for the legislation. It's been propelled by complaints about both stop and frisk and the department's extensive surveillance of Muslims, as disclosed in stories by The Associated Press.