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Improvements in NYPD's evidence provision to CCRB
4:04:29
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Executive Director Jonathan Darche details significant improvements in the NYPD's process of providing evidence, particularly body-worn camera footage, to the CCRB. He highlights reduced response times and new agreements that have enhanced the efficiency of investigations.
- Response time for body-worn camera footage requests has been reduced to 8 days in 2023 and 2024
- A new memorandum of understanding ensures evidence from Force Investigations Division cases is provided within 90 days
- Darche notes that while direct access to footage is not available, it would further improve efficiency and public perception of fairness
- These improvements represent a substantial change in cooperation between NYPD and CCRB
Jonathan Darche
4:04:29
Thank you, doctor Khalid.
4:04:31
So, when body worn cameras were first introduced by the NYPD, there were very large backlog backlogs in providing us with body worn camera footage.
4:04:46
Since the the was a change in how NYPD handled evidence production to the CCRB, and they put NYPD legal and deputy commissioner Gerber and his team, They made them responsible for it, and, the agency works very well with them to get body worn camera footage efficiently from the department.
4:05:15
In 2023 and in 2024, it took eight days for a body worn camera footage request to be responded to.
4:05:24
So that that is a significant improvement over the days where it would take, you know, tens, if not more than a hundred days sometimes for body worn camera footage to be turned over to the CCRB.
4:05:41
Additionally, in December of twenty twenty three, the department and the agency signed a memorandum of understanding where cases that were under FID investigation, the evidence that was collected by the force investigations division would be provided to the CCRB within ninety days of the incident on a rolling basis.
4:06:08
And that has significantly improved how our we have access to not just body worn camera footage in serious force cases, but all evidence, NYPD paperwork in serious force cases.
4:06:23
So it's substantial change and a real improvement.
4:06:31
One of the things you asked about was direct access.
4:06:35
We do not have direct access.
4:06:37
We think it would make our investigations more efficient.
4:06:42
And we also think it would increase the public perception that our investigations are fair and accurate, that we were able to directly access the body worn camera footage without relying on what is produced by the NYPD.