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Council Member Salaam questions Commissioner Tisch about quality of life teams and their focus
1:15:36
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Council Member Yusef Salaam inquires about the newly announced quality of life teams in certain precincts, their evaluation for expansion, and the specific issues they will be targeting. Commissioner Jessica Tisch responds by explaining the pilot program, plans for citywide expansion, and the main quality of life issues these teams will address.
- The pilot program is currently running in six precincts with different crime levels and quality of life issues.
- Commissioner Tisch anticipates a citywide rollout of the program in the near future.
- Major quality of life issues include illegal parking, residential noise, blocked driveways, and abandoned vehicles, with priorities varying by precinct.
Yusef Salaam
1:15:36
I want to go into the quality of life, their teams and the criminal summonses for the e bikes a little bit more and want to discuss the quality of quality of life division and teams that you recently announced.
1:15:51
I know they are only being placed in certain precincts.
1:15:56
How will you evaluate the effectiveness of these teams for expansion?
Jessica Tisch
1:16:01
So we are doing a pilot now in six precincts.
1:16:05
And we tried to pick precincts where we saw different crime levels, different types of quality of life issues with the intent of learning from that pilot in those six precincts and then expeditiously expeditiously rolling the program out citywide.
1:16:25
So the intent of this program is to go citywide and a few months into the pilot now as I sit here I believe that we will be able to take this citywide expeditiously and I look forward to announcing soon a schedule for that.
Yusef Salaam
1:16:46
And what's the biggest quality of life issue you'll be targeting with these teams?
1:16:50
I mean we've seen the new policy that criminal sentences will now be issued for traffic offenses and so forth and so on e bikes.
1:16:58
Is there an issue these teams will be specifically focusing on?
Jessica Tisch
1:17:03
So it will change.
1:17:05
It will vary precinct to precinct depending on what the big quality of life concerns are.
1:17:13
But I will tell you just citywide, illegal parking is certainly the largest three eleven complaint we get now.
1:17:22
Over half a million three eleven complaints about illegal parking.
1:17:27
The second highest is residential noise at over 300,000.
1:17:32
Blocked driveways 170,000.
1:17:36
Noise on the street or sidewalk 161,000.
1:17:39
Abandoned vehicles 70,000.
1:17:42
Those types of things like some categories are up and down depending on what precinct you're at, but the very basic things that people complain to 311 about.
1:17:55
Since 2016 the number of calls to 311 that the NYPD is responsible to respond to have doubled or have nearly doubled.
1:18:05
And so people are clearly like literally calling out for help and the quality of life teams are designed to address that or be responsive to that.
Yusef Salaam
1:18:16
Gotcha.