QUESTION
What would decriminalizing jaywalking and making it a civil penalty do to reduce discriminatory stops?
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Council Member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers questions whether decriminalizing jaywalking and making it a civil penalty instead of a criminal offense would result in fewer discriminatory stops by police.
- Deputy Chief Thomas Alps states the NYPD is conscious of implicit and explicit bias in policing.
- He says when data suggests biased policing, the NYPD examines it to ensure actions were lawful and followed guidelines.
- Alps cites a specific NYPD guideline that prohibits bias-based policing.
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:15:06
In regarding decriminalizing it and making it a suit penalty rather than legalizing it altogether, how would this result in fewer discriminatory stops?
1:15:18
It could be still used as a pretext to target minority communities, which is a serious harm to the social fabric of the city.
1:15:26
I think we all would agree and would reduce it to a civil penalty result in a lower deterrent effect.
Deputy Chief Thomas Alps
1:15:36
And, again, the police department is very conscious of implicit and explicit bias policing.
1:15:45
Emplacing.
1:15:46
So when the data sit jests something like that.
1:15:51
We're more conscious not to ever to dig into that data, to make sure that that policing method that was used and whatever that outcome was was lawful and within guidelines.
1:16:06
Where our administrative guide specifically 304 dash 17 prohibited spies based police So