Ariola requests crime data by council district
Councilmember Ariola asks for crime data broken down by council district. Tisch calls it a good idea and says they can try to provide it, noting it would be high enough level to not reveal precinct-specific deployment.
Councilmember Areola, followed by Councilmember Joseph.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Thank you for always coming fully prepared and for testifying with full transparency and clarity.
We really do appreciate that.
Many of us here want to see the NYPD get more resources than I'm hearing you saying we're getting, so that's what we're here for.
As far as numbers, you had them categorized by borough and how crime has decreased by borough, especially retail crimes in specific boroughs.
Do you have that?
Drill down as far as council districts because oftentimes we get calls in our council offices that says well it's we can't even live here anymore you know we're ready to go but we want to be able to tell them like you know you're our
Numbers by council district.
Right.
How good a...
That's a good idea.
I don't think we have that available now, but that would...
be, I think, high enough level that it wouldn't be at the precinct level.
That's actually a really good idea about how to get more granular than just borough.
Right.
And we can try to provide that.
Yeah, so this way we can fight back any narrative that says, you know, crime is out of control because I do, I love the Q teams, I love our community affairs officers, I agree that we need more heavy toes.
I'm so happy that you're open to that, you know, in some of our areas.
The other thing is, you said that a lot of