CM Ariola on 911 audit system and 580 officer budget cut

So because we're on crime data and statistics and follow-up, does the NYPD keep a record of 911 calls for crimes being reported compared to the amount of reports that are actually being taken by the officers?

Right, so we actually do audits on this.

So we have, as part of our auditing system, and we can talk more about that, but one of the audits that we do...

Is an ICAT audit.

So

What we will do is, and we do this both at the command level in terms of self-inspections, and then separately from the crime audit team, we'll do ICAT audits, where we take 911 calls,

Right?

And radio runs.

And we have a sampling of how we do it.

And then we check.

Right?

And we say, okay, there was a call for burglary in progress.

Right?

A robbery in progress.

Okay, now we're going to check.

One, was a complaint taken?

And two, if it was taken, was it taken properly?

So we do have a whole auditing process in place to address this issue.

Right.

May I ask just a little lead time?

Thanks.

So in this year's budget, Mayor Momdani cut 580 police officers from the budget.

Do you have any idea where those police officers might have been assigned if they had been budgeted?

And do you believe those additional officers, specifically the ones that may have been assigned to the Bronx, would have had a beneficial impact on crime stats in that borough?

So I certainly can't speak to where sort of hypothetically officers would have been assigned.

And, you know, look, obviously, if we didn't have budgetary restrictions, like in a vacuum, as between more police officers and fewer police officers, of course we're always going to want more.

But, but.

It makes sense that if we had those extra 580 cops, we would.

have 580 cops more on the street and less crime.

But I do want to say that we understand, obviously, that we have budgetary constraints.

And we feel like with the cops that we have, we're having a tremendous amount of success in fighting crime.