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Q&A
Council Member Williams questions NYPD on promotions, community engagement, and youth strategies
1:30:45
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3 min
Council Member Nantasha M. Williams engages in a Q&A session with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Chief Michael Lipetri, discussing various topics including discretionary promotions, community engagement, and youth strategies. The conversation covers data sharing, community affairs resources, and the implementation of new initiatives like Q teams.
- Williams requests racial and gender breakdown of recent and upcoming discretionary promotions
- Discussion on NYPD's relationship with CURE violence groups and CMS attendance at roll calls
- Inquiry about the rollout of Q teams in Southeast Queens
- Debate on the resources allocated to community affairs and youth officers within the NYPD
Nantasha M. Williams
1:30:45
Can I this is just you can give me this later, but if I can get a racial and gender breakdown of the recent discretionary promotions and upcoming ones that would
Jessica Tisch
1:30:53
be great?
Nantasha M. Williams
1:30:57
One of the chiefs testified about sharing intel with CURE.
1:31:03
Are you talking about the CMS groups?
1:31:05
Yes.
1:31:05
Themselves?
1:31:07
Okay.
1:31:09
DYCD testified last week.
1:31:11
They didn't mention that because we asked about the relationship with CMS and NYPD, they did share the only thing they said was about the roll call, and so I just wanted to know if you have any data on the frequency of how many times a CMS group attends roll call.
1:31:25
I don't really think that's an effective way to really develop a relationship.
1:31:28
Even though I've attended roll calls, I feel like the relationship needs to be a little bit more than saying hello to the officers that are about to go in the streets.
Michael Lipetri
1:31:35
I can't answer the roll call question, but I could tell you that my office usually has a call with QL violence CMS on a weekly basis and we share data on a weekly basis also.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:31:49
Okay.
1:31:51
I'll just hurry up with my last questions.
1:31:54
I'm excited about the Q teams, I would love to know when they will be rolled out in the January because quality of life is probably number one in South East Queens and I know the commanding officers that we have had, a lot of them have grown up in the community and they take great pride in reallocating resources to address quality of life, but we're really excited about the Q teams and so just wanted to know when it when you plan to roll it out in Southeast Queens.
1:32:21
I will have those dates soon.
1:32:25
Okay and last ish right now is I know you testified that you look forward to working with us on youth strategies and in a previous hearing there was some testimony on like the youth officers and I love community affairs, will say that all the time, I don't think their budget is enough and I think between the community affairs officers and the youth officers like these are the officers that we want to see do this proactive and not reactive police work and I just don't think that their budgets align with the department's priority of like trying to help our young people do better.
Jessica Tisch
1:33:00
I understand the feedback and I will say we can get you the exact numbers, but I will say that the Community Affairs Bureau is perhaps the only bureau in the department whose staffing numbers are significantly higher today than they were in 2018 when we had 11% more officers.
1:33:28
So I am also sensitive to staffing in community affairs, understand the feedback, but I wanted to make sure that it was put in that context in that perspective.
Nantasha M. Williams
1:33:39
Yeah, I'm more so looking for more resources in their OTPS budget.
1:33:43
Understood.
1:33:44
Yeah, like we have them, great, but then oftentimes they're not able to actually do the things that would be wonderful in the community because they don't have any money to
Jessica Tisch
1:33:52
do it.
1:33:52
Understood, thank you.