Q&A
Impact of Operation Roosevelt on undocumented individuals
2:52:22
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110 sec
Council Member Cabán discusses Operation Roosevelt with panelists, focusing on its impact on undocumented street vendors and survival sex workers. The conversation highlights how surveillance technology is used in these operations and the extensive information collection about specific communities.
- Operation Roosevelt primarily affects migrants and survival sex workers
- Police interactions lead to substantial data collection about individuals and their networks
- The flooding of an area with policing goals results in a great deal of information about specific communities
Tiffany Cabán
2:52:22
Thank you.
2:52:22
And I just wanna thank all of the people on this panel for the work that you do, especially especially my former colleagues.
2:52:30
I Before I ask a question to to you, mister Greco, I just also wanna like I mean, does this sound right to you?
2:52:38
You you spoke about Operation Roosevelt, is not far from where I represent.
2:52:43
And, you know, we're in a moment where I think collectively there are a lot of people in government saying that we wanna protect the fact that we are a sanctuary city, that we want us to protect families and individuals from deportation.
2:52:57
And then there is this Operation Roosevelt that's taking place using this kind of technology.
2:53:03
And is it fair to say or correct that the the folks that are most impacted by this are undocumented street vendors and undocumented survival sex workers?
2:53:15
Yeah.
2:53:15
Migrants, survival sex workers.
Cynthia Conti-Cook
2:53:17
From my understanding, yes, absolutely.
2:53:19
The people that are most impacted by not just the police productivity goals that were reported in that January 2025 report like arrests, summonses and seizure of property, that's not the only kind of police activity that's happening.
2:53:34
Every time they stop someone, every time they have an interaction with someone, they are taking information from that person.
2:53:40
What we know from the decades of stop and frisk is that the impact of that kind of constant interaction and the heavy amount, the flooding area with policing goals leads to police who have collected a great deal of information about who people are and where they go and who they are in contact with, their networks and else, what other other kind of activities that they are reporting.
2:54:08
It's a great deal of information collection about a very specific type of community.