Q&A
Council member questions NYPD on racial profiling and bias in police encounters
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Council Member Yousef Salaam asks the NYPD about racial profiling and bias in police encounters. Deputy Commissioner Michael Gerber responds by discussing the CCRB's role in investigating such cases and the disciplinary process for substantiated allegations.
- CCRB is responsible for investigating racial profiling and bias-based policing
- Some cases have been substantiated and are pending in the disciplinary system
- The presumptive penalty for bias-based policing or racial profiling is termination
Yousef Salaam
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thank you for your testimony.
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Before we dive into the details of policing and procedures, I would like to start by asking a simple big picture question.
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Do you believe that racial profiling or other forms of bias are reflected in how the department and its officers engage with civilian and and conduct investigative encounters?
Michael Gerber
1:31:44
So the CCRB, as you know, has responsibility, for investigating, racial profiling, bias based policing.
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They took that over, I guess it was end of last year, really beginning of of of this year.
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And that that process they have a whole unit that looks at this, investigates cases.
1:32:07
Some matters have not been substantiated.
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Some matters have.
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Those, those, you know, allegations and those cases then make their way through, our disciplinary system.
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We do have a number of such cases pending, and I think those cases need to play out through that disciplinary system.
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Obviously, these are incredibly sensitive cases, incredibly serious allegations.
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The presumptive penalty, for bias based policing or racial profiling is termination, and and and rightfully so.
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But, of course, there's a need for due process and for these cases to play out.
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That that that's what's actually happening.
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That's what's happening now, and that's what will be happening in the future.
