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New approach to quality of life enforcement and parking issues
1:14:04
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Commissioner Tisch outlines a new approach to addressing quality of life issues, including parking violations, in response to Council Member Holden's concerns. The strategy involves increased accountability, localized training, and a more targeted approach to community-specific problems.
- The NYPD plans to implement a system of measurement and accountability for quality of life complaints similar to CompStat for crime
- Training for officers will be tailored to the specific issues prevalent in their precincts
- Council Member Holden highlights improvements in towing enforcement, with his district seeing an increase from 50 to 760 towed cars annually
Robert F. Holden
1:14:04
Okay.
1:14:05
Getting into quality of life, which I love, that idea, that was the intent of the NCO program originally.
1:14:14
And since we had a shortage of police officers, the NCOs kind of were, you know, on 911 calls more more often.
1:14:23
So, for instance, a lot of my complaints in most of my precincts seem to be quality of life parking issues.
1:14:34
Somebody's in the driveway, somebody's parked at a hydrant, whatever.
1:14:38
You know, a lot of commercial vehicles, which many times is frustrating on 311 because the officers don't seem to know the law on improper registration, for instance.
Jessica Tisch
1:14:47
And that's exactly what is behind the model that I'm recommending.
1:14:54
Quality of life complaints have to be measured, and there has to be accountability in our precincts and our commands for addressing them.
1:15:04
In the same way there has been for the past thirty years with Constant, accountability for dealing with and addressing crime conditions in commands.
1:15:12
But this model is also driven by a fundamental belief that the cops who work in the commands day in and day out, they know the issues the best.
1:15:21
So in your precinct, if the major issue is parking related, then we give those cue teams more training on the law around parking.
1:15:33
But in another precinct the issues may not be parking.
1:15:37
May be completely different and then we would train officers in those precincts about the types of jobs that they will encounter often.
1:15:46
But we need to have more accountability and a more localized approach to addressing quality of life issues in New York City.
1:15:54
And that's what we're going to One
Robert F. Holden
1:15:56
thing in working with NYPD since I came into the council when I first came in, the January, which has probably 90% of my district, towed only 50 cars in that particular year.
1:16:08
And I had a bill that I we passed through the council my first year on towing that we the police can tow at will for certain offenses.
1:16:17
So we're now up to 760 last year in towing.
1:16:22
So we went from 50 to seven sixty, which I wanna, you know, just give a shout out to inspector Brian O'Sullivan, CEO of the traffic division under the chief of transportation.
1:16:32
You I mean, at will, you call him.
1:16:34
You say, we got this problem, you know, and this this is parked here for a month or two months or three months.
1:16:40
And he goes out with his team, they do an excellent job.
1:16:44
I just want to bring up the subways before I run out of time, and I am running out of time.