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Role of school safety officers in recommending additions to the gang database
1:42:06
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Council Member Cabán inquires about the involvement of school safety officers in recommending young people for inclusion in the gang database. NYPD officials explain that school safety officers can be one of the independent sources considered in the process.
- Cabán asks about the role of school safety officers in database recommendations
- NYPD officials confirm that school safety officers can be considered as expert sources
- They emphasize that input from school safety officers alone is not sufficient for database inclusion
- The exchange reveals the potential for school-based observations to contribute to database entries
Tiffany Cabán
1:42:06
What role excuse me.
1:42:08
What role do school safety officers play in recommending that young people be added to the database?
Michael Gerber
1:42:14
Because to my knowledge
Jason Savino
1:42:15
That that could be one of the independent sources that we we consider them an expert of the subjects.
1:42:21
Right?
1:42:21
Like, nobody knows our kids better than our school safety.
1:42:24
That could be one of the independent sources.
Tiffany Cabán
1:42:26
And so school safety officers are saying, I'm around the I'm around the school.
1:42:30
I think this kid's in
Althea V. Stevens
1:42:30
a gang.
Michael Gerber
1:42:31
It would have That would not that would not be enough in and of itself.
Michael LiPetri
1:42:33
It's not accurate.
Michael Gerber
1:42:34
Hold on second.
1:42:35
Not accurate.
1:42:36
We have, as you know, we've tightened up significantly the rules for someone being entered in a database.
1:42:41
If two independent sources, two independent individuals say that someone is in a criminal group database and