Councilmember Cabán questions NYPD on desk appearance ticket denial documentation
Cabán asks about NYPD policy on documenting reasons for denying DATs and whether DAT investigation forms are still used. The NYPD representative says this is an operational decision outside his scope but offers to follow up with data.
I'm going to pass it to Councilmember Caban.
Thank you.
My questions are for the NYPD.
I want to start by sort of the role that NYPD has in relation to the production of people that are in the system.
Just like the DAs have a lot of control in this area, so does the NYPD.
And unfortunately, we're seeing...
What is, can unequivocally be described as a drastic increase in broken windows policing, which again, there is well over two decades of research that says this stuff does not bear
any progress on public safety.
But I want to know about the NYPD's current policy on documenting the reason a DAT was denied.
You know, my understanding is that you guys maybe aren't using DAT investigation forms anymore, which those are the documents that include a lot of the exceptions that aren't in the statute.
But based on the information that I've been getting from folks who work with people in the system, and based on my questioning at previous hearings,
This does not seem to be what's actually happening.
So can you lay out exactly what the policy is around the document?
of the reason a DAT or an appearance ticket was denied.
Councilmember, I appreciate that.
Unfortunately, I think you're discussing or talking about an operational decision that is essentially occurring in a command by a uniformed member of service.
I think it's a little, it is outside of the scope that I'm able to attest to here today.
I mean, how many people are going before a judge and how many people are being processed rather getting an appearance ticket, I think falls under the scope of an oversight hearing of