CM Wong on crime report auditing process and quality assurance
Wong asks about the Quality Assurance Division's crime report auditing process. Gerber explains multiple layers: Data Integrity Unit reviews, Crime Audit Team deep dives, ICAT audits comparing 911 calls to reports, and Confidential Investigation Team for misconduct, with quarterly CAT audits per command.
Thank you, Chair.
Deputy Commissioner Gerber, thank you for coming.
Previously, you testified that NYPD needs good data for resource allocation.
And my questions will be focusing on how data is collected and how data is classified.
You also mentioned that there were audits conducted.
Between ICAT runs and the 9-11 cause.
And my question is, does the Quality Assurance Division still audit each command's crime reports?
And are those audits conducted quarterly?
Yes, so if I could just explain a little bit how it works, because there actually are multiple layers of auditing that are done through the quality assurance section.
And just very briefly, so you have the DIU, the data integrity unit, and they're doing reviews.
Sampling, some of it's random, some of it's targeted and focused, some of it's keyed off of various metrics.
So they're doing reviews of complaints of all sorts, again, with a sort of a set methodology.
So they're doing those reviews.
Separate and apart from that, the crime audit team, they are doing reviews focused in particular on looking at crime class.
that are not major seven crime classifications, but if you're worried about misclassification, sort of where you would look, right, if that makes sense.
So they're doing that, and they're doing a deep dive on sampling on commands.
And then we have, and they're also doing, the crime audit team also does the ICAD audits.
And then we also have a confidential investigation team in the quality assurance section, and that's doing investigations of alleged misconduct.
In terms of timing, the DIU work essentially is constant.
That's constantly happening.
The turnaround time from a complaint, when a complaint first comes in, if it gets flagged for DIU review, that will play out probably within three to four weeks, right?
Now, then the CAT audits, those are happening quarterly.
So every command is getting reviewed in the quarter, and then that will be reported out.
It plays out over the following quarter.
So it takes about a quarter for that to shake out.
And the radio runs, reviews are being done in each command twice a year, and that's on top of the self-inspections that are being done.