Q&A
Potential impact of increased reporting on missing persons cases
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Council Member Stevens, on behalf of other council members, asks about the potential impact of annual reporting on missing persons cases, particularly regarding transparency and public trust in NYPD's handling of these cases.
- NYPD representatives agree that more transparency could increase public trust
- Discussion on the challenges of handling large amounts of data
- Potential for improved community outreach efforts, especially in areas with significant immigrant populations
- Agreement that precinct-specific data could empower community leaders to advocate for more focused interventions
Althea Stevens
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Yeah.
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I have some questions from, my colleagues, who are on Zoom.
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And because we don't have quorum, they can't ask.
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So these questions this question is from, council member Williams.
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Would you agree that this annual reporting will require increased transparency in public, trust in NYPD's handling of missing people?
1:55:57
So I believe they're asking about the bill around, do you think that this would help with transparency and getting this information out?
Josh Levin
1:56:11
More eyes on something.
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Sure.
1:56:15
But what I wanna do is I'd love to work with counsel to actually figure out it's a I'm telling you, it's a lot of data.
1:56:20
Mhmm.
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Right?
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So I would love to work with you to figure out what gets you exactly what you need without having to be too onerous of a pool every time.
1:56:28
It's you and I have spoken about this before at other hearings.
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This one wasn't a clickety clack boop.
Althea Stevens
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This You always talking about there's no clickety clack boop.
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I and I'm telling you,
Josh Levin
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I'm gonna keep talking about it because
Althea Stevens
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Because I listen.
1:56:38
You could get the data, and you could make it clickety clack.
Josh Levin
1:56:41
I I did I did get it.
1:56:43
I did get it, but then I spent a lot of time doing a stick count myself, making sure it it it was in some type of digestible format for y'all.
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So, yeah.
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In summary, yes.
Althea Stevens
1:56:54
Alright.
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Do you, could you, could this reporting lead to improve improved community outreach efforts in area like Jamaica where significant immigrant populations, ensuring that no.
1:57:07
No.
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And ensuring that non English speaking residents are aware of the resources available for reporting missing persons.
1:57:13
So, you know, I I believe she's just hinting at, like, in in Queens, they have a big thing around this, especially in immigrant populations and folks who don't speak English.
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Do you think that this reporting could, like, actually help some of that?
Josh Levin
1:57:26
This is it's the question in regards to missing persons or human trafficking or mobile
Althea Stevens
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person.
1:57:30
Yeah.
Josh Levin
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Missing persons.
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Gotcha.
Carlos Ortiz
1:57:32
Mhmm.
Josh Levin
1:57:33
Yeah.
1:57:34
I think I think our people internally always have eyes on where we're seeing things spike and where we're seeing things go down.
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And as a result, we specifically target resources to those specific areas, and that's in all of our campaigns.
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In the crime prevention division, elder abuse, I appeared before
Ina Mendez
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Mhmm.
Kathleen Baer
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The
Josh Levin
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committee to talk about that.
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We go to the places where these people are, so we use these numbers to determine what we're doing.
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So I think we're already doing that.
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I think this is just something for the public facing, I guess.
Althea Stevens
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Yeah.
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And and that's what she's getting at, like, having the community be more being able to, like, identify some of this information.
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Because even her next question, would you agree that the visibility of precinct specific data would empower community leaders and organizers in Jamaica, Queens to advocate for more focused interventions and resources?
Josh Levin
1:58:22
Yeah.
1:58:22
I think you can't wrap your arms around an issue until you actually see, like, the nuts and bolts of it.
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So yeah.
Althea Stevens
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Alright.