Brooks-Powers and Tisch discuss truck enforcement and social media monitoring

And lastly, we have consistently heard from community members and local precincts that police officers are not aware of local laws regarding the truck routes, truck island, and other park-related...

Trucking related matters.

The result is that there are no, there is no consistent enforcement against trucks breaking the laws.

What steps is NYPD taking to ensure that all police officers are trained on this issue and able to enforce traffic laws against trucks that are not compliant?

And I'll give you an example.

We did a walkthrough with DOT.

And there was a truck that was idling on Springfield Boulevard.

And we had a local officer there as well, but it was clear that it was not clear in terms of how long that truck was able to legally idle in that location.

Okay, I'll start with that one first, and then you have to remind me about the other one.

Sorry, Coach.

If there is a precinct where we have to do specific refresher training on specific laws like truck idling,

We are very happy to do that and to do that quickly.

So my team can connect with you to understand what the very specific issue is.

And you have my commitment that those officers in that command will be refreshed in.

Those issues.

You asked, I think your second to last question, working backwards here, was about Rikers.

And I'll just be blunt.

NYPD does not think in terms of the size of the correction population or the Rikers population.

That is a matter specifically for the Department of Correction.

We don't enjoy arresting people, but we will take action when there is a crime committed.

And so my hope is...

My expectation is that the city will account for that in their planning for correction capacity.

And just to clarify, because I think we're in alignment and not necessarily wanting people who should be in custody to be in custody, it's more in terms of looking at the low-level offenses that I think you mentioned earlier.

that could be a summons, for example, but understanding that coordination because we are seeing an increase in the arrests that are happening and we're not seeing that revolving door for those that may be

instances where there could be summonses or at low level.

We allow our officers to use discretion.

Where you are seeing increases in arrests, like where you're seeing arrests

for something that would otherwise be summonsable is generally in three areas.

One, the person cannot be properly identified.

Which is out of the officer's control.

If the person cannot provide ID or the department cannot properly identify them, they are not eligible for a summons.

Doesn't matter how low the offense is.

And if they are able to provide it, oftentimes they are.

Second is if they are wanted on an open warrant that they themselves have not

responded to and are required by law to respond to.

And we come across them for a low level thing, we will arrest them and return them to, they need to be returned to court to deal with that open warrant.

So I just don't want their

I reject the narrative that the NYPD is on a spree of arresting people.

people for low-level offenses when the actual data shows otherwise.

Thank you.

Just going back to the first one, it was more centered around the takeovers and the social media

efforts that I know PD has technology and they are viewing different social medias to try to stay up to speed with what's happening with the young people,

but wanting to know what that coordination with the local precinct looks like so that we can be more proactive and responding to it.

The chief is going to take this one, but I just want to say social media is driving right now.

Two big things that I know are of particular concern to many of you here.

Car meets, and teen takeovers, which are exploding across the country, and I expect only to get more intense as school lets out.

We monitor social media for both of those

things, but your question is specifically about team takeovers and the chief will let you know how we approach those and how we coordinate with the local precincts on them.

Good afternoon.

So actually, the local precinct is the first line of defense when it comes to monitoring social media.

We have field intelligence officers assigned to

all 78 precincts across New York City.

Our housing PSAs and also our transit PSAs.

We do have a centralized social media team out of our detective bureau, but also out of our

intelligence bureau, but it starts with the local precinct.

So if a field intelligence officer is monitoring social media in the 101 in Far Rockaway, he or she, through our

ECMS system, will share that intelligence, not just locally, but citywide.

And we, you know, again, we're very good at knowing the platforms that we need to look at, but that's real time.

Like, that's real time.

We don't wait.

That gets sent out immediately, and everybody is always working together, and we've gotten very, very good with the car meets and also the team takeovers with sharing that intelligence, right?

One of the four principles of, actually two out of the four principles of CompStat is timely and accurate intelligence and rapid deployment, and that's a staple of the New York City Police Department.

And I just want to add on your last question.

I'm sorry, I lost the forest through the trees, threw me off for a second.

Low-level arrests don't end up in Rikers.

You end up in Rikers for a felony.

So I...

Low-level arrests are not driving the Rikers population.

So not everyone at Rikers are there for a felony.

I know Councilmember Caban is going to probably dig more into this later, so I'm not going to take up more of the committee's time on it.

I do want to thank you for your...

responses and just make a plug for the 101 precinct in terms of capital needs because that precinct right now is highly dilapidated and under-resourced as well.

But thank you, chairs.

Thank you.

Okay, we have Councilmember Felder versus Councilmember, and next we have Councilmember Brewer followed by Ressler.