Q&A
Metrics for measuring effectiveness and goals for the NYPD Inspector General's office
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Commissioner Strauber discusses the metrics used to measure the effectiveness of the NYPD Inspector General's office and outlines goals for improving their work.
- The office issues more reports annually than other individual squads in the agency
- Strauber aims to conduct more proactive inquiries and issue reports more quickly
- She emphasizes the importance of addressing issues promptly while public attention is focused on them
- The recent social media report is cited as an example of a relatively quick turnaround
- Challenges in timing and prioritization are acknowledged across the agency
Gale A. Brewer
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Yeah.
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I know people because I've been around forever.
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I know people who are around forever, and they are asking for it.
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And I won't mention who they all are, but believe me, I know them.
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So, what to you would be a highly functioning and effective IG office?
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What are the metric you use to measure the success?
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In other words, I know you mentioned the number of reports pretty consistent as an example.
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And then the other issue was percentage of recommendations accepted by the police department, the range of topics investigated.
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I don't know.
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It's it's hard to know what would be the best measure, but I think we need some measure.
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And, you know, maybe how it compares to other squads, which, you know, you can have other squads.
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Unfortunately, the police department is always going to be the one that people pay most attention to.
Jocelyn Strauber
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Yeah.
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This this squad actually in terms of since its focus is report writing, it it issues more more reports than than on an annual basis, I would think, than any other individual squad.
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I there may be some that that come close certain years, but generally, they issue more they they certainly issue more reports overall than any individual squad in the agency on an annual basis.
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Certainly, that's true over the last 2 years.
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I I think to to answer your question, and and I think this is something that that more staffing would would help with, I would like us to be able to do more proactive inquiries and issue reports more quickly.
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And to be clear, this is a challenge across the agency.
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And, you know, there are different, you know, pressures and priorities and sometimes, you know, the timing shifts for various reasons.
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But I think being able to speak on issues of importance to the public as close in time as possible to when those issues arise is most valuable, because public attention tends to move quickly from issue to issue.
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And I think we have the most momentum when we're able to speak promptly.
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I think the social media report, you know, is a good example of a tight turnaround.
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Would we have wanted it to be even faster and issue that report at the end of last year?
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That was our goal.
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Early January, you know, I'll take that given the tremendous work that it took on the part of IG Barrett and her staff to to make that possible on top of the other reports that they did last year.