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Council Member Restler's final appeal for NYPD to address racial disparities
1:21:45
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Council Member Restler makes a passionate final appeal for the NYPD to recognize and address the racial disparities in traffic enforcement. He expresses disappointment in the department's response and calls for concrete action to improve the situation.
- Restler emphasizes that the disparities persist even when accounting for various factors
- He argues that the current enforcement patterns are not fair or aligned with the aspirations of the NYPD or the city council
- Restler calls for the NYPD to develop a plan to shift policies, approaches, and tactics to reduce racially disparate enforcement
- He expresses hope that the department will take the hearing as an opportunity to commit to doing better
Lincoln Restler
1:21:45
But take the surveys of drivers aside.
1:21:47
The enforcement data, the disparate enforcement data is serious, and and you could offer some context context that makes it less of an extreme disparity as perhaps it appears, but the disparity persists.
1:22:01
And I don't think that commissioner Tisch's department wants to be wants to be operating a department where 90% of the people getting arrested for traffic stops are black and Latino when they represent such a modest minority of the drivers on the road.
1:22:14
That's not right.
1:22:15
That's not fair.
1:22:15
That's not the a the the NYPD that she aspires to or that I aspire to or this council aspires to.
1:22:22
And and it's not what's happening every day.
1:22:25
And so I'm disappointed that you've come to this hearing basically saying, this data point I disagree with.
1:22:32
I'm not gonna engage seriously in this report despite there being really, really, really troubling trends that we are seeing that we know about in our communities.
1:22:41
That that that those of us, you know, we see this, we talk to our constituents.
1:22:44
The data here is an a compelling citywide analysis of that I I just am I'm disappointed.
1:22:51
I'm not hearing the recognition, the awareness, or the plan for how we're gonna do better moving forward, and I hope the department takes this hearing to say that we do need to do better, and we do need to shift our policies and approaches and tactics to make sure that we have less racially disparate enforcement than we do today.
Tiffany Cabán
1:23:09
I have another set of data for you, Lincoln.
Lincoln Restler
1:23:11
You go next.
Yusef Salaam
1:23:12
We're gonna we're gonna go into second round, but what's good about this conversation, I didn't want to stop it, but the reason why I allowed it to continue was because the best thing about the NYPD, best thing period, is the slogan that we are the best police department in the world.