In unusually strong terms, Ms. Quinn, the City Council speaker, denounced Mr. Bloomberg's support of the stop-and-frisk policing tactic, saying the city had been hurt by an unjust practice, and she dismissed an off-the-cuff proposal from the mayor that public housing residents be fingerprinted, deeming it "ludicrous and outrageous."
Once the clear front-runner in the race, Ms. Quinn has pitched herself as a moderate, pragmatic candidate who enjoyed a friendly relationship with the mayor, an image that could be advantageous should she advance to the general election.
But her campaign has been unsettled by the sudden rise of Mr. de Blasio, the public advocate, whose outsider stance and fiery denunciations of Mr. Bloomberg have helped lift him into the top tier of candidates in the Democratic primary contest for mayor.
On Friday, Ms. Quinn held a news conference to announce that she and other Council members would oppose any attempts by the Bloomberg administration to overturn a ruling by a federal court judge who found that the stop-and-frisk practice violated the constitutional rights of minority groups. (The administration filed its appeal hours earlier.)
"Communities across the city have suffered long enough," Ms. Quinn said, adding, "There should be no further delay to long-needed reforms."
While Ms. Quinn has argued that the Police Department should take steps to reform its use of the tactic, her criticism had been less emphatic than that of Mr. de Blasio, the public advocate, who focused on the topic in his first television commercial.
Her more subtle critique of the practice — along with a pledge to retain Raymond W. Kelly, who has expanded its use, as police commissioner — has left some confused about her position.
In a televised interview on Friday, Thomas Roberts, an anchor for MSNBC, referred to Ms. Quinn as a supporter of the stop-and-frisk tactic.
Ms. Quinn interjected. "No, no, no," she said, shaking her head, "that's actually not accurate." She said she agreed with the court's ruling against the city.
But Mr. Roberts was perplexed, asking Ms. Quinn why, then, she would keep Mr. Kelly on the job. Ms. Quinn said that in her administration, "unconstitutional stops will end."
Later in the day, pressed about Mr. Kelly, Ms. Quinn drew an even sharper distinction with the current administration.
"Ray Kelly has implemented Mike Bloomberg's vision of stop and frisk," she said. "Chris Quinn's vision of stop and frisk is totally different. And then it will be his choice of whether he wants to implement that, or not."
Mr. de Blasio's blunt statements have engendered their own confusion: he supports changes to the stop-and-frisk tactic, as Ms. Quinn does, but not its elimination.
Of the major Democratic contenders, only John C. Liu, the city comptroller, has said he would abolish the practice entirely, a point that Ms. Quinn explained to Mr. Roberts on MSNBC.
Asked about it later, Ms. Quinn laughed.
"You typically don't take airtime, particularly not on national cable shows, to mention other people's names," she told reporters. "But since Mr. Roberts was putting incorrect facts out there, I felt like I needed to correct the record."
As his tenure increasingly comes under fire in the mayoral race, Mr. Bloomberg, for his part, could barely contain his exasperation with the Democrats.
On his radio program on Friday, the mayor complained about the Democratic candidates' eagerness to reform policing tactics and criticism of his ideas to raise revenue for public housing.
"If anybody's got any better ideas, I'd like to hear them — concrete ideas," Mr. Bloomberg said. "Not just say, 'Oh, there's better ways — if you elect me, then I'll tell you.' "
He also suggested an idea: a fingerprinting system so that only residents of public housing could enter their buildings.
By the end of the day, nearly every candidate for mayor, including Ms. Quinn, had condemned the idea.
The mayor's spokesman, Marc La Vorgna, later took to Twitter to defend his boss.
"I look forward to 20 years from now," Mr. La Vorgna wrote, "when everything will use biometrics, and people will look at candidates' comments today and laugh."
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