Q&A
Inquiry into the effectiveness and improvements of the NYPD gang database
2:20:18
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Council Member Stevens questions Deputy Commissioner Gerber about the effectiveness of the gang database in improving crime rates throughout the city. Gerber responds by discussing recent changes to the database following a Department of Investigation (DOI) report.
- Stevens asks how the gang database has improved crime throughout the city
- Gerber mentions implementation of DOI recommendations and major changes to the database
- Discussion on whether individuals are notified of their inclusion in the database
- Stevens requests data on how many people have been removed from the database in the past year
Althea V. Stevens
2:20:18
And this is pertaining to the gang database.
2:20:20
Could you talk to me a little bit about, like, how the gang database has improved crime throughout the city?
2:20:24
Like, how are those things correlating?
2:20:26
Because for me, has it, like, changed dramatically?
2:20:28
Does it, like, help with like, how is it improving, policing in in New York City?
Michael Gerber
2:20:33
Right.
2:20:33
So so the gang database is an intelligence tool, and I do wanna say and I I know I I know you're watching the clock, but also there were things that were said before the the gang database that are not true.
2:20:42
And I I do wanna say that just for a second.
2:20:44
Right?
2:20:45
Criminal gang database, there was a DOI report last year.
2:20:48
We made major changes to the database in light of that report.
2:20:51
We took most of DOI's recommendations, implemented most of those recommendations.
2:20:56
Some of it was being described Are
Althea V. Stevens
2:20:57
you are you notifying people that they're on the on the database?
Michael Gerber
2:21:00
We do not notify people.
2:21:02
We did say, though, as one of the things, is that if someone if someone does foil it, we will consist it with the foil ball.
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:07
Been removed off the database since last year?
Michael Gerber
2:21:09
What was that?
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:10
Has anybody been removed from the database this last year?
Michael Gerber
2:21:13
So we we have an entire process for reviewing this.
2:21:15
Right?
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:16
No.
2:21:16
I'm asking you.
2:21:16
How many people have been reviewed from the database this year if you implemented all these things?
Michael Gerber
2:21:21
I I do not have I do not have the data with me.
2:21:23
Right?
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:23
Because Okay.
2:21:23
Well, you should.
2:21:24
Always, you know, be prepared.
2:21:26
Well But if you don't have
Michael Gerber
2:21:27
it here investigating
Rita Joseph
2:21:28
the counter
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:28
send it back to us and written testimony too.
2:21:30
So don't worry.
2:21:31
You don't have to if you don't have it right here,
Rita Joseph
2:21:32
we know how to get
Althea V. Stevens
2:21:33
in contact
Michael Gerber
2:21:33
with you.
2:21:33
We'll get you data on that.
2:21:35
We have we have changed the rules regarding the the the criminal group database both in terms of the criteria and documentation.
2:21:43
It has changed dramatically.
