The city wants the police unions to butt out of the stop and frisk case.  In papers filed Friday with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the city withdrew its Bloomberg-era consent for the various police unions to get involved with the stop-and-frisk appeal, and urged a panel of judges not to let them interfere with a tentative deal bringing the contentious case to an end.  “Granting intervention would be severely prejudicial to the parties and would frustrate the compelling public interest in allowing this litigation to be finally resolved,” said the filing by new city Corporation Counsel Zachary Carter.  RELATED: POLICE UNIONS SEEK TO BLOCK DE BLASIO'S STOP-AND-FRISK DEAL  The deal between the city and the plaintiffs in case — people who said they’d been targeted for police stops because of their race, not because of their actions — would essentially let stand the controversial ruling by Manhattan federal court Judge Shira Scheindlin from last year.  Scheindlin found that police had been misusing the tactic, resulting in an unconstitutional “policy of indirect racial profiling” and ordered a series of reforms that Mayor de Blasio wants to adopt.  Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg vehemently opposed Scheindlin’s ruling, and gave the unions consent to get involved in the appeal this past November.  RELATED: NEW YORK'S STOP-AND-FRISK APPEAL IS ON HOLD  The de Blasio administration moved to drop the city’s appeal last month, but the NYPD’s patrolmen’s, sergeants’, lieutenants’, detectives’ and captains' union filed papers last week urging the Second Circuit to carry on with its review.  Allowing Scheindlin’s decision to stand, they contended, would effect their day-to-day jobs and cause their members “grave reputational harm.”  The city’s filing countered that allowing the case to drag on could “hinder” the “agreement in principle” it struck with the plaintiffs.  RELATED: JUDGES, LEGAL PROS BACK TRIAL JUDGE IN STOP, FRISK RULING  Its filing called the unions’ stance “speculative,” and noted that Scheindlin “imposed liability on the City, not the unions which bear no responsibility for setting the NYPD's policies and practices.”  The lawyers for the plaintiffs also asked the judges to exclude the unions, and urged them to rule "forthwith."  The Second Circuit doesn't appear to be in a rush - they scheduled both sides to submit additional arguments in the case stretching into April, an indication they won't rule before that.  Ed Mullins of the sergeant's union was hopeful thee judges would let the unions have their say.  "The city doesn't have the right to just exclude us from the decision making process," he said.
Mayor de Blasio announced a deal last month with the plaintiffs of the stop-and-frisk suit, dropping the city's appeal of the decision that found the NYPD's use of stop-and-frisk was misused. The city filed papers Friday asking an appeals court to keep the police unions' from continuing with their appeal.