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Concluding arguments about community trust and alternative policing strategies
1:34:49
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Council Member Stevens concludes her arguments by emphasizing the need for alternative policing strategies and the importance of restoring community trust. She reiterates that the NYPD has other effective tools and that the gang database is not essential for crime prevention.
- Stevens argues that other tools are solving crimes effectively without the database
- Emphasis on the need to restore trust in the community
- Criticism of the NYPD's resistance to change and claims of impending crisis
- Personal perspective shared as a resident of a high-crime area
- Call for reimagining community policing strategies
- Assertion that the gang database is not the solution for improving community relations
Althea V. Stevens
1:34:49
My time is up and I don't wanna be disrespectful to the share and I and I know that they still but we'll continue to talk, but I just wanna be clear and just say the last thing is there are other tools that you guys are using that are actually solving the crimes and you guys are being clear about that and so this is the sky isn't falling and I think Jermani, our public advocate said it.
1:35:07
Every time there's a situation that you guys don't like, you push back so hard and make it seem like the sky is falling.
1:35:11
I actually have faith that the other tools that you're using is going to be better than this because it's about restoring the the trust that needs to happen in the community because unlike I live in this community still currently, like I didn't move away, I live in the community where we have some of the highest shooting in the city.
1:35:27
I live there, I see it, I've worked with kids who've had to bury their friends.
1:35:31
We are not doing the real work and to me this is a place where we could actually re recreate how we are community policing and this isn't it.
1:35:39
There's other tools and so we'll continue to talk.
1:35:41
Thank you, chair.