Babe Howell
0:47:17
Reviewing the monitor reports over the last 11 years, it seems quite clear that actually when the NYPD does the responsive, investigation, They are in 95, 96, 97 percent of compliance.
0:47:38
The patrol officers have high compliance.
0:47:42
It are it is the special units out there claiming predictive or precision, self initiating stops that are not documenting their stops whatsoever, misrepresenting them, responsible for the vast majority of unconstitutional stops, unconstitutional frisk, and unconstitutional searches.
0:48:09
As the public advocate pointed out, we cannot expect the police to do all the things.
0:48:16
Their job is solving crimes, responding to calls.
0:48:21
If we remove this part where they are somehow supposed to, guess who is committing crimes and find them by stopping them, investigating them.
0:48:36
Until we remove that part, we will continue to see, this abuse, and particularly the racial profiling that that characterizes it.
0:48:50
So first, eliminate self initiated stops and investigative, encounters.
0:48:58
2nd, we do also need to eliminate the gang database, because once we have a label on someone that they are a gang member based on things they post on social media, that is automatically going to elevate, the police interest in them, and they'll see reasonable suspicion where it might not otherwise exist.
0:49:21
So we in order to get rid of, the equal protection violations, we must get rid of a database that is 99% black black and Latinx based on utterly lawful conduct.
0:49:38
And on that note, I I think we also need to proactively limit, social media reviews.
0:49:44
We have whole teams scouring only, people of color social media.
0:49:49
That can be used as an investigative technique in a responsive sense, but should not be self initiated.
0:49:56
We have to stop the mass surveillance of people of color.
