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Discussion on the effectiveness of the gang database in crime prevention

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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and NYPD officials engage in a discussion about the effectiveness of the gang database in preventing crime, particularly in Brooklyn. Chief Lipetri provides examples of how the database has been used in precision policing efforts.

  • Lipetri cites Brooklyn as having its safest year in 30 years of CompStat history
  • He attributes this success partly to precision policing using the criminal group database
  • Lipetri explains how the database helps in resource deployment and connecting information about guns, crews, and territories
  • The discussion highlights the use of the database in specific neighborhoods like East New York, Brownsville, and Bedford Stuyvesant
Jumaane Williams
1:18:10
And do you have similar data for prevention of retaliating shooting?
Michael LiPetri
1:18:14
Yes.
1:18:14
I I mean so we're we're shifting to the criminal database?
Jumaane Williams
1:18:19
No.
1:18:19
This is the same same gang database.
Michael Gerber
1:18:21
Yes.
1:18:22
Yes.
1:18:22
Yes.
Michael LiPetri
1:18:23
We're in DNA now we're shifting.
1:18:25
Okay.
1:18:26
Let me let me just start with this.
1:18:30
You know, last year was the safest year in the history of the thirty years of CompStat where we started accurately recording crime statistics in Brooklyn.
1:18:42
Brooklyn, safest year in thirty year history.
Jumaane Williams
1:18:46
Is the database only exist in Brooklyn?
Michael LiPetri
1:18:48
No.
1:18:48
But I'm gonna if I can finish, I'd appreciate it.
1:18:51
Thank you.
1:18:52
A large part of that was precision policing using our investigative precision and our deployment precision in neighborhoods such as East New York, Brownsville, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, East Flatbush.
1:19:09
And the criminal group database was a part of that, knowing instantaneously where shooting was in the Vanderviers in East Flatbush and moving resources as far as Far Rockaway in Southern Queens.
1:19:24
Moving resources to Brownsville, Brooklyn, East New York, Brooklyn.
1:19:28
And how do I know that?
1:19:30
Because I'm a large part of that.
1:19:32
It's about deployment.
1:19:33
It's about precision.
1:19:34
It's about looking at the trigger pullers in New York City and putting it all together.
1:19:41
Lincoln's analysis, connecting guns, connecting crews, connecting territories, long and hard work for our investigators.
Jumaane Williams
1:19:49
I'm running out town.
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