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Clarification on residence-based inclusion in the criminal group database
2:43:10
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires whether individuals are ever added to the criminal group database solely based on where they live. NYPD officials emphatically deny this practice and explain recent changes to the database inclusion criteria.
- NYPD officials state that individuals are absolutely not added to the database based solely on where they live
- The department has eliminated previous criteria that could have considered residence or association
- Current inclusion is based only on the three specific criteria mentioned earlier
- Geography may be considered for analysis after inclusion, but not for determining database entry
Yusef Salaam
2:43:10
Are individuals ever added to the database solely based on where they live?
Michael LiPetri
2:43:15
Absolutely not.
Michael Gerber
2:43:16
No.
2:43:17
And I want to be very clear about this.
2:43:19
It used to be that there was a way that someone could be added.
2:43:21
Basically, there was like a list of various factors.
2:43:25
If you had at least two of those factors were satisfied, then the person could be added.
2:43:30
And I think we took a hard look at that and we were actually not comfortable with that list of factors because, Chair, to your point, some of those factors seemed to go to association and residence.
2:43:43
And it never would have been like one factor alone, but we got rid of that entire thing.
2:43:48
We got rid of that entirely.
2:43:50
So if the question is could someone be added to the database now because of where they live or even who they associate with, the answer to that is today, absolutely not.
Michael LiPetri
2:44:00
Absolutely not.
2:44:01
And actually we work backwards.
2:44:03
So we look nowhere where that person lives.
2:44:07
They fit that criteria.
2:44:08
And then what I what I mean by working backwards, we then look to see where the majority of those individuals, I mean that's just again going back to precision policing.
2:44:18
Right.
2:44:19
We want to know where retaliatory shootings can happen.
2:44:23
We want to know where the retaliatory crew frequents, things of that nature.
Michael Gerber
2:44:28
Right.
2:44:29
In terms of the analysis, what Chief Lopetri and others are gonna look at, geography does matter, but not when it comes to admitting someone into the Absolutely not.
2:44:37
I wanna be really clear about that.
2:44:38
That was something, frankly, that that was a consideration back in the day and we have eliminated that.
2:44:45
It's it's very important.
2:44:46
We've gotten rid of that entirely.
Michael LiPetri
2:44:47
Only three ways described by myself and commissioner Garbo.