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AGENCY TESTIMONY
DOI's accomplishments and statistics for 2024
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Commissioner Strauber highlights the Department of Investigation's achievements in 2024, emphasizing the agency's productivity despite challenging conditions and decreased staffing.
- DOI made 370 arrests in 2024, a 59% increase from 2022
- Complaints received rose to approximately 14,800 in 2024
- Cases referred for prosecution increased to about 498 in 2024
- These accomplishments were achieved despite a 10% decrease in overall staffing since 2022
Jocelyn E. Strauber
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Let me turn to our work in 2024, which was an extremely productive year for DOI.
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The work that we have done ranging ranging from large scale criminal cases that have yielded numerous convictions to complex criminal investigations of senior city officials to public reports and recommendations about a range of issues from the city's oversight of nonprofit contracts to combating contraband smuggling into Rikers is a credit to our skilled and dedicated team of DOI investigators, auditors, and data analysts, and the support of our entire operational staff and our executive team.
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Together, they make DOI's accomplishments possible.
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Again and again, over the last three years, we have asked them to take on more work and more responsibility, often for no additional compensation.
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And every time they have stepped up and served the city admirably under very challenging conditions.
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I am very grateful to them.
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To give you a sense of our accomplishments over the past year, I will share the statistics on certain major indicators and highlight particular investigations and prosecutions.
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I encourage you to review our 2024 calendar year end report, which has been distributed with my testimony and provides a full picture of the results of DOI's hard work.
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Excuse me.
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A unique feature of DOI is that when we find misconduct, whether or not our findings result in criminal charges, we consider whether changes to city policies and procedures might close corruption vulnerabilities, limiting the risk of future misconduct.
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And if so, we make recommendations for policy and procedural reform.
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These recommendations, while not mandatory, are public, providing transparency about areas where city practices, in our view, can improve.
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This past year, we have focused on older pending recommendations, engaging with the agencies to advance them to accepted and implemented status.
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In 2024, DOI made three seventy arrests, a nearly 59% increase from 2022 when I began my tenure at DOI.
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Since 2022, the complaints we receive rose considerably to approximately 14,800 in 2024 as did the number of cases we referred to prop for prosecution to approximately 498 in 2024.
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These figures are extraordinary given the number of resource driven complex investigations underway at DOI and the approximately 10% decrease in our overall staffing since the beginning of 2022.