Q&A
Council Member Brewer questions NYPD on data sharing and open data portal
1:21:24
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Council Member Gale Brewer inquires about the NYPD's data sharing practices, specifically focusing on what information could be made available on the open data portal. Deputy Commissioner Michael Gerber discusses the department's data production, citing drone usage reports as an example of publicly disclosed information.
- Brewer emphasizes the importance of sharing non-sensitive data on the open data portal
- Gerber mentions that the NYPD voluntarily discloses drone deployment data quarterly or annually
- The discussion highlights the balance between transparency and operational security in police data sharing
Gale Brewer
1:21:24
quickly, I'm going back to this data issue that I asked earlier.
1:21:27
Obviously, there's data that is not going to be, available to the public for obvious reasons, but I'm still focused on the fact that the open data portal, which you do combine do produce data for for the seven major categories, Are there data lists here that should also be going to the open data portal from your perspective?
Michael Gerber
1:21:48
Well, you know, the the department does produce a tremendous amount of data
Gale Brewer
1:21:52
You do?
Michael Gerber
1:21:52
To the public.
1:21:53
Some of it mandated by by law, some of it voluntarily.
1:21:57
And actually one example is disclosures that we make regarding drone usage.
1:22:02
It's actually a great example.
1:22:03
We put out, and I'm actually I'm actually not sure this is mandated by law.
1:22:07
Actually, I'm not a % sure.
1:22:09
I think we just do this voluntarily.
1:22:11
We disclose, I think each year, I think it's quarterly actually, certainly annually, our number of drone deployments.
1:22:19
That's something I think that's important for the public to understand and to know.
1:22:22
It's actually, something that it's data, quantifiable.
1:22:26
It does not impose an undue burden on the department to put that out there.
1:22:30
I would wanna think about other examples of things like that.
Gale Brewer
1:22:34
How many times I would assume it's on a database.
1:22:36
How many times the drones have gone out?
1:22:39
It's not a I don't think, secret information.
Michael Gerber
1:22:41
No.
1:22:42
It's publicly disclosed.
Gale Brewer
1:22:43
Right.
1:22:43
So that would be something that would go on to the open data database
Yusef Salaam
1:22:46
portal?
Michael Gerber
1:22:46
Yeah.
1:22:46
I'm I'm not I'm actually not familiar with the open database in Right.
1:22:50
No.
1:22:50
I understand.
1:22:51
So I'm not in a position sitting here to actually express a view about the open database in particular.
1:22:57
But to be clear, like, is data that we share with the public.
Gale Brewer
1:23:01
Mister chair, go to others, and we can always come back.
1:23:03
They haven't had a chance.