Councilmember Cabán presses NYPD on DAT denial data and broken windows policing
Cabán argues DAT policy is central to court efficiency and jail population, citing data that over 90% of the time NYPD finds reasons to avoid field DATs, often citing open summons warrants. The NYPD representative says he will follow up with data.
the efficiency of the courts and in reducing the jail population.
You know, you can't get into jail without.
An arrest being precipitous.
So I don't know why you're not able to testify on that.
Sure.
And I'll be more than happy to follow up with you with respect to the reasoning and that question.
And I'll try to get you data on reasons why.
Okay.
DATs are being disqualified.
If we're able to capture that metric, I would have to check that.
And just as a reminder from the testimony from the executive budget hearing around this, the court decision at the state level.
Says when a D.A.
or an appearance ticket must be given in the field.
And well over 90% of the time, the NYPD is finding a reason or just flouting the law and taking people to the precinct to process them there.
And it's causing a lot of problems.
It's not just backing up the system, but also we're seeing really devastating things happen to the people while they're in police custody.
And the reason that was given was that there are other open warrants, but what...
Failed to be disclosed is the data around how many times those open warrants were for the same kind of nonsense, where
those open warrants were actually SAP warrants, right, where summons warrants is for taking up an extra seat on the subway, for having an open container, things that should not justify
somebody being processed and, quite frankly, categorizing them as, like, we had to process them because they had these open warrants, amounts to misleading fear-mongering.
So I would like the data on that.
Can you tell me the most common reason why an otherwise eligible DAT is denied?
Again, I'm going to have to get back to you on that.
Okay.