REMARKS
NYPD's approach to officer training on de-escalation and community interactions
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Chief Maddrey discusses NYPD's approach to training officers in de-escalation techniques and handling community interactions, particularly during level 1 encounters.
- The NYPD is focusing on increasing roll call training to address specific scenarios related to police-community interactions.
- Chief Maddrey acknowledges the gap between legal definitions of encounters and community perceptions, emphasizing the need for improved communication.
- The department aims to train officers to ask questions respectfully while recognizing citizens' right to disengage from conversations.
Jeffrey Maddrey
2:46:32
Right.
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I I I kinda think I understand what you're talking about.
2:46:35
I mean, listen, we train our officers.
2:46:36
We train our officers in de escalation.
2:46:39
We talk to them about level 1 encounters and stuff like this.
2:46:43
The conversation I had in the office about a week ago, we want to increase our training, more of our roll call training, the 10, 15 minutes our officers have to roll have after roll call to address certain scenarios just like this.
2:46:59
Again, your lived experiences, you you think I can come up to you and ask you something very innocuous and you feel that you're not free to leave, and that's not the case by law.
2:47:10
That's not the case by law.
2:47:11
You can just say, I don't wanna talk to you officer and walk away.
2:47:15
This is something that we have to work on.
2:47:17
I mean, it's the police department, the communities, where people understand what it is.
2:47:22
So for officers approaching you and ask you an innocuous question, you could talk.
2:47:26
You you don't have to talk.
2:47:27
Alright?
2:47:28
A lot of these innocuous questions, people know that they have questions to help.
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When the officer says, hey.
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Did you you just hear gunshots?
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People know that the officer's just looking for help.
2:47:37
Whether they choose to answer or not answer is, again, up to the individual, but it's something that, you know, we're not gonna be able to solve it here, chair.
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It's something that we really have to get the communities and work with.
