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Council Member Sandy Nurse questions DSNY on street vending enforcement protocol
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Council Member Sandy Nurse inquires about the protocol for street vending enforcement, particularly focusing on the relationship between the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the NYPD. Joshua Goodman from DSNY explains their role as the lead agency in coordinating street vending operations, while also detailing situations where they collaborate with the NYPD.
- DSNY's enforcement work on vending is primarily civil in nature, while they partner with NYPD for criminal matters like counterfeit goods or drug sales.
- There's some confusion about who takes the lead when both DSNY and NYPD are present during street vending enforcement.
- The discussion reveals potential inconsistencies in the enforcement protocol, particularly regarding communication between DSNY and NYPD.
Sandy Nurse
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Thank you.
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I just I I only had a question about kind of protocol for sanitation, because sometimes I'm confused about who's doing enforcement.
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We have a couple hot spots, and you all have come out as as well as other agencies and done pre inspections and done a ton of communication, but unfortunately sometimes enforcement ends up being
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case.
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Oftentimes, we'll get photos or videos of police officers there, and you all are not there, and when we call down sanitation they say, well we didn't ask them to be there.
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So, can you walk through kind of the protocol for your interactions with local precincts in terms of when you communicate the need for police presence or PD presence, and just like how you're in communication with them on a regular basis on these things.
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So would are
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all being called down from PD doing enforcement in areas?
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For street vendor enforcement.
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When they're down there doing street vendor enforcement, they're calling you all down?
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But is that not what the current protocol is?
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I mean, isn't it that you all have the enforcement portfolio for street vending?
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So when it comes to street vending and both are on the scene, who's the lead?
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Okay.
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And have you asked PD in situations to stand down?
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Okay, those are my questions, thank you.
Mohamed Attia
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Joshua Goodman
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Be happy to, of course, councilmember.
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DSNY partners with the NYPD in specific designated circumstances.
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As I mentioned, our enforcement work on vending is civil in nature all the time.
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But we work with the NYPD on events where counterfeit goods are present because that's a criminal matter.
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On complaints about vending that includes the sale of drugs, again a criminal matter.
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And sometimes as part of interagency NYPD operations where they request DSNY assistance.
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So we do work closely with the NYPD coordinating particularly around some of the sort of persistent areas of concern in the city, but generally the partnership is where DSNY is providing the civil enforcement and NYPD is present because a criminal matter is believed to be taking place.
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PD does often request DSM-four.
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I couldn't speak to every situation, but there are situations like the one you described, yes.
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Well, DSNY is the lead agency in coordinating street vending operations, but there may be situations where NYPD is engaged in a different quality of life operations.
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You know part of this is street vending.
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We should get the sanitation police here to assist with the street vending concerns.
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The SNY is the lead agency on street vending operations citywide.
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Not to my knowledge.
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We work closely with the NYPD.
Christopher Leon Johnson
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