Joseph questions NYPD on youth arrests and school collaboration

Thank you.

Hi, Commissioner.

Always good to see you.

I'm right here.

Hello.

Hello.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Youth arrests for major felonies have increased in each of the last fiscal years.

At the same time, major felony crimes in schools relatively flat over the past year.

period.

How can we improve those stats?

You know how I feel about that.

And what other agencies and programs can NYPD reach I believe would be great partners?

Hold on, I have two people.

He's explaining to me the first part of your question.

Okay, sorry.

What's the second part of the question?

How are you working with other agencies to make sure we're bringing down the numbers among young people that we're seeing in these cases?

Alex is going to answer the first part of the question.

After he explained the question, all right.

So I can answer the first part.

Sorry, there's lots of different things going on at once.

All right, so arrests in schools are actually down.

So this year they're down 4.8%.

So we're seeing both less crime and less arrests in schools at the same time.

But how are you also working in collaboration with schools?

For example, I knew before there was a division working on school.

There was a drone for subway surfing.

We lost a young person at 14 years old to subway surfing.

The last hearing that I had here with transportation and YPD and New York City Public Schools as interagency, these are conversations that all agencies should be having.

So where are we on that in terms of collaboration and working?

On all of things.

Collaboration with DOE.

I hope if you ask them, they will say the same thing.

But from our perspective, the collaboration with DOE specifically has never been better.

I'll let Tanya speak about the work that we're doing with DOE.

And then I want to speak a little bit about the work we're doing with them with Subway Surfing.

Go ahead.

How are you doing?

I'm good.

So.

We take arrests.

We work with our DOE partners really well.

Oh, you facilitated that whole thing.

You had the first meeting.

Yes.

65% of incidents that occur in schools now are mitigated by DOE.

We meet with our DOE partners on a monthly basis.

We also meet with the advocates on a quarterly basis to try to work with the advocates in DOE to

So we don't have to arrest and have DOE take on more of the incidents.

So you're working interagency, so you're working with Project Pivot, who's on the ground, which is the cure violence groups they have in schools.

Yes, 351 schools, Project Pivot is it.

We provide support in those schools during the times that Project Pivot is going on.