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Nurse asks how CCHR measures expanded capacity

New York City Council · Oct 16, 2026 · starts 1:00:36 · 1 min 9 sec

Nurse asks how CCHR measures impacts of expanded intake, outreach, investigations, and strategic enforcement. Kamuf Ward says meaningful resolutions are the North Star and CCHR will revisit metrics as staffing changes emerge.

Sandy Nurse

You also reported, CCHR reported that OCRE significantly expanded capacity compared with the Law Enforcement Bureau in

Sandy Nurse

intake, outreach, investigations, and strategic enforcement.

Sandy Nurse

How are you measuring the impacts of this expanded capacity in each area?

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

Yeah, I mean, I think the number one metric that we have always thought about is meaningful resolutions for New Yorkers.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

And so I think that will continue to be the thing that we are using as our North Star in cases.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

And, of course, looking at all the aspects of case processing time, as the assistant commissioner mentioned, you know, we ideally have no wait times.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

You come to us and we are serving you immediately.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

That is where we want to get.

JoAnn Kamuf Ward

But over, I think, as we see what these staffing changes emerge and look like, we'll be revisiting our MMR metrics and a whole host of kind of indicators to baseline over the next year.