AGENCY TESTIMONY
Overview of recent and upcoming OIG-NYPD reports
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Commissioner Strauber provides an overview of recent reports issued by OIG-NYPD and highlights upcoming investigations and follow-up reports.
- OIG-NYPD issued 4 reports in 2023, 4 in 2024, and the first report of 2025 was just released
- Recent reports cover topics such as NYPD's social media use policy, community response team, criminal group database, and the relationship between overtime and negative policing outcomes
- The office produces several mandated reports, including annual assessments of NYPD's compliance with the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act
- Upcoming work includes a follow-up examination of the community response team and a report on the criminal group database
- The commissioner emphasizes the rigorous process involved in producing these reports and the goal of addressing high-impact issues more proactively
Jocelyn Strauber
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These efforts have provided essential support to the team and led to results.
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As we said, OIG NYPD issued 4 reports in 2023 and 4 in 2024, and yesterday, the first report of 2025.
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Each of these reports include important recommendations that seek to strengthen NYPD policies and to bring public transparency to the department's practices.
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To give a few examples, over the past 2 years, the team has tackled critical topics and issued reports including the department's social media use policy, finding deficiencies in NYPD's policies, noncompliance with the citywide social media policy, and a lack of oversight of NYPD senior executive social media posts.
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We issued a report on the department's community response team, which has expanded significantly in the past 2 years, finding an absence of written policies and procedures to guide the unit's actions and providing critical information to the public about an NYPD unit, information that had not been previously publicly available.
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We issued a report on the department's criminal group database examining a number of issues, including the department's processes to add, remove, and maintain individuals in the database and public concerns about inclusion in the database, providing the basis for an important follow-up report that we are currently working on to assess the department's compliance with our recommendations, a substantial number of which were accepted.
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We issued a report on the relationship between department overtime and
Gale A. Brewer
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negative policing outcomes, finding, not surprisingly,
Jocelyn Strauber
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that overtime has a outcomes, finding, not surprisingly, that overtime has a statistically significant relationship with a number of negative outcomes.
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And those would include things like lawsuits, CCRB complaints, and the This last report involving overtime is among the several mandated reports that legislation requires the office to produce.
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Some of those reports are annual reports.
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For example, each year, the office is required to assess the department's compliance with the public oversight of surveillance technology act known as the POST Act, and also to produce an annual comprehensive review that discusses all of the office's reports since the inception of the unit in 2014 and the current status of each recommendation.
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The March 2024 annual report discussed 20 investigative reports, one statement of findings, and the status of 233 recommendations issued over the office's 10 years.
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Each report involves a rigorous and thorough process, first obtaining key facts, including policies, procedures, and where appropriate, relevant data, interviewing witnesses, and thorough process, first obtaining key facts, including policies, procedures, and where appropriate relevant data, interviewing witnesses, summarizing the background, and making key findings and conclusions that support our recommendations.
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We are making progress, but we want to do more so that we can weigh in more proactively on the issues of greatest impact to our community in a timely fashion.
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This is a challenge given that thorough investigations take time and resources.
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But it is a goal we are striving already to meet.
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As a follow-up to our report on the community response teams, we will be conducting an examination of critical issues relating to CRT, including the disciplinary history of its officers, the impact and the impact of CRT's work on the communities they police through an examination of available data.
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And as I just mentioned, the office is also working on a follow-up report to the criminal group database that will be issued in the first half of this year focused on NYPD's review processes for the activation of individuals, the adding of individuals into the database as well as the implementation of certain recommendations that the department accepted.