QUESTION
What Accommodations Does NYPD Provide During Interrogation for Vulnerable Groups?
0:22:42
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Council Member Osse asks about the accommodations the NYPD provides for vulnerable groups such as children, individuals with intellectual disabilities, or those with limited English proficiency during interrogation. The response highlights the NYPD's commitment to overcoming language barriers by providing certified translators, ensuring a guardian or trusted adult presence for juveniles, and making accommodations for other vulnerable individuals to ensure lawful and proper interrogation processes.
Chi Ossé
0:22:42
I know that you listed some of the accommodations in your testimony, but but you go into depth on what accommodations that NYPD provides children, individuals with intellectual disabilities or those with limited English proficiency when they are interrogated?
Joseph Kenny
0:22:59
Yes.
0:22:59
So if if there's a language barrier, we reach out to our operations unit.
0:23:05
And they will provide us with a with a certified trained translator for the the length of the interrogation.
0:23:13
You know, we we want to, you know, want we don't want it to be a language barrier when we conduct the interrogation itself as far as juveniles.
0:23:21
We give every opportunity and chance for a parent or guardian to be present during the administration of of Miranda and the interrogation itself.
0:23:34
If a parent or guardian is not available, We'll try to make accommodations to have another community member, neither a member of the clergy or a coach or a teacher or a neighbor.
0:23:44
Be present.
0:23:45
We we want to go through lengths to make sure that the interrogation is done lawfully and done property.
0:23:51
Properly and and will make every effort to assure that the child has it, has an adult that they that they trust in the room with them during the interrogation.