REMARKS
Examination of the How Many Stops Act implementation
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Council Member Salaam outlines the committee's intention to examine the implementation of the How Many Stops Act, which requires NYPD to report on all police-civilian investigative encounters.
- Explains the purpose of the legislation to bring transparency and accountability to police-civilian interactions
- States that they will question NYPD about implementation, reporting procedures, and trends identified from initial data
- Mentions the need to assess whether the reported data provides sufficient public transparency
Yousef Salaam
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Additionally, today, today's hearing will examine the administration's implementation of how the How Many Stops Act, a local law enacted by counsel earlier this year, which requires NYPD to report on all police civilian investigation encounters.
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The purpose of this legislation was to bring much needed transparency and accountability to those interactions and require the NYPD to document the reasons for encounters, their outcomes, and the demographics information of those stopped.
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We will question the NYPD about how they implemented the law.
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Their established report reporting procedures, and any trends that the department has identified from initial data reporting pursuant to the law.
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We will also delve into whether the data reported pursuant to How Many Stops Act is sufficient to provide the public much needed transparency.
