Chair Feliz on Bronx crime hotspots and resource allocation

Okay.

I just want to move on to statistics related to the Bronx.

Again, we can't talk about public safety in our city.

without talking about the Bronx, given that that has been the area that's been historically affected due to crime.

And, you know, obviously, historically, it has been a challenge.

So I want to talk about the Bronx, and I guess the broader conversation is about crime hotspots.

So we've made a lot of progress on issues of crime, but again,

About 40% of the murders that this city has seen this year has been in the Bronx.

The same is true for shooting incidents and shooting victims.

Also, last week in the 44th precinct, nine people shot in one precinct in just one week.

Nine people shot.

So just curious, I know there's different steps that...

Your team has taken, including separating the boroughs, patrol borough north and south.

Talk to us about the resources that came in and also what was the division of, I guess, police officers.

I know there were 200 police officers.

So like I said in my opening testimony, you know, the Bronx North,

It exists because the NYPD made the decision to create it, to create two patrol boroughs in the Bronx and deliver a safer borough.

What that means is more cops, more specialty units, more detectives, more resources, leadership, and oversight.

And it's working.

The Bronx is leading the city in crime reduction.

overall, at about 11.9%.

That doesn't happen by accident.

We're looking at the data, we're putting our police officers where they need to be in the borough of the Bronx, in the zones.

Five out of six commands in Bronx North have summer violence zones.

Five out of six commands in Bronx South have summer violence zones.

It's about 21 violence zones in the borough.

So we're putting the cops where they need to be.

And if we take a cluster of shootings in the 404 precinct or any precinct in the city, we're going to look at the data.

We're going to start the next day.

And not just after the fifth one, after the first one.

When we take any shooting, we look at what we need to do.

What's the motivation behind that shooting?

Who's doing it?

Do we know who's doing it?

Where it's happening?

And we're going to target that area.

We're going to saturate the area.

Okay.

And, you know, I'm not asking this question because I'm from the Bronx.

But obviously, you know, I know this is a police department that has focused mostly on murders and shootings.

So I'm just wondering, I know you mentioned generally every borough gets a similar amount of resources.

But there's additional resources that are poured depending on the issues there.

Approximately what percent of resources, NYPD-related resources, are allocated to the Bronx, given this public safety crisis that it seems like they're in?

I mean, again, 40% of murders that the city has seen has been in the Bronx and shootings.

So just wondering, yeah, how much of the resources, total resources, have been allocated to the Bronx?

So we have the two boroughs in the Bronx now.

So more.

more cops in general.

So we have our mobile field forces and

About 54.5% of our 1230 mobile field force, which helps with school conditions, is assigned to the Bronx.

Monday to Friday, about 42.8% of our mobile field forces are assigned to the Bronx.

And on the weekends, that increases to about 50% that are assigned to the Bronx.

So it's more help where it's needed.

All right, thank you for the information.

We'll go with council member, we'll do a second round of questions.

Council members, Areola, Caban, Nurse, and then Wong.

I know also this is a pretty narrow topic, crime statistics, compared to, for example, the budget hearings.

We ask about a trillion things related to the NYPD, so we'll be a little bit generous with time.

But please make sure to let the members ask the questions and then let the police department answer the questions.

And that's, yeah, answer the questions.

Thank you.