REMARKS
NYPD's current approach to stop and frisk practices
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Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey outlines the NYPD's current approach to stop and frisk, emphasizing changes from past practices and the department's commitment to proper use of the tactic.
- NYPD no longer pressures officers to conduct stops to meet quotas
- Officers are instructed to use stop and frisk intelligently and in accordance with the constitution
- The department acknowledges mistakes and is committed to addressing issues
- NYPD focuses on placing officers in areas that require help and have higher crime rates
- Officers are encouraged to document stops truthfully and explain their actions
Jeffrey Maddrey
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No.
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No.
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I understand.
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So let me address something, council member.
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Now I've been in the department a long time.
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Alright?
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And I was around for 2009, 1011 when stop question for fiscal was at its highest.
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Alright?
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It was something where, you know, we had to answer for.
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We had to answer for why, why, why.
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It wasn't properly used, and there was a lot of pressure with it.
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We don't do that anymore.
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We don't do that anymore.
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I'm the chief of department.
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I chair comp stat.
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That is not a question that's asked.
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I don't want every any of my office officers to ever think that they have to go out there and stop somebody because there's a certain pressure coming from the top.
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That is not the case.
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Alright?
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We ask our officers to go out there and use that intelligently.
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Alright?
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It's rooted in the constitution, and we want them to use it intelligently.
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We want them to use it properly.
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Do we see mistakes?
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Absolutely.
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Do we see things that we need to address?
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Absolutely.
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Alright?
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In preparing for this meeting, I've I I became aware of some things that I wanna go back and take a deeper dive on.
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But one thing I can assure you is that we do not pressure our officers to go out and do this.
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Alright?
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We put officers in places that need help.
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Alright?
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Places that require help, places that we see crime.
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That's where we put our officers.
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And we want them to go out there and be visible and talk to the communities and work with them.
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And if there's a situation that they have to conduct a stop, I want them to document it.
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Alright?
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Be truthful about what happened out there.
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Explain what happened, and maybe we could teach you better.
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Maybe we say, hey.
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You messed up, or maybe we say, you did a great job.
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You prevented something.
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Alright?
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So this is what we want, and this is what we expect.
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We'll keep looking at it and keep working on it because I don't want people to feel that we're doing it just because we're going into a community just because you're black or you're brown.
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That's not what we're pushing out.
Althea V. Stevens
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Yeah.
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But do you do you
Diana I. Ayala
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keep records of, like, in a non black and brown community, you know, what the what the numbers of stop and frisk are and compare that?
