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Proposed changes to CCRB board composition and appointments
2:00:15
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Commissioner Dr. Lisette Nieves asks for details about Campaign Zero's proposal to expand the CCRB to 21 members, focusing on appointment structure and representation.
Cassandra Ippaso explains the goal is to prevent any single entity (like the mayor) from appointing a majority.
The proposal includes increasing City Council appointments to two per borough and adding an appointment by the City Comptroller, citing the Comptroller's office's perspective gained from handling police misconduct settlements.
Dr. Lisette Nieves
2:00:15
My question is about expanding it to 21.
2:00:17
So are you saying that you also wanna make sure that the mayor only gets to a point nine?
2:00:21
Is that what part of that?
2:00:23
So even if you could or send that in, but you don't I'm I'm curious to hear just a little bit more on that.
2:00:29
You don't even have to answer, but it'd be great to have that fleshed out in a
DeRay Mckesson
2:00:33
So we actually we have the, the edits to the charter that we would love to see.
2:00:38
I think we only make six copies because it's a long document.
Dr. Lisette Nieves
2:00:40
So Okay.
DeRay Mckesson
2:00:41
We can send that to you.
2:00:42
So Cassie will answer the the details, but what we're trying to do is have no one political member appoint a majority.
2:00:49
So we are adding people to the process.
Dr. Lisette Nieves
2:00:51
Totally get that.
2:00:52
The the other than expanding it, are there particularly in the 21 representation that is not there now that you have recommendations you'd like to see?
Cassandra Ippaso
2:01:01
Yeah.
2:01:02
Our proposal is that so currently, there is one appointment per borough by the city council.
2:01:08
We recommend increasing that to two appointments per borough by the city council.
2:01:12
We believe that that would be a broader representation of New Yorkers at large.
2:01:16
And similarly, we actually recommend that, we add an appointment by the city comptroller.
2:01:21
We believe that this is kind of a an additional voice that would work that would help with additional representation.
Dr. Lisette Nieves
2:01:28
Thank you.
DeRay Mckesson
2:01:29
And we added the comptroller.
2:01:30
As you know, there's New York City has a record number of settlements that the controller's office manages with regard to police misconduct.
2:01:38
So when we included the controller, we didn't do it sort of out of left field.
2:01:41
It was like, we actually think that the controller's office has a different lens on police accountability, and we've actually been trying to work with that office under a previous comptroller to see if we can actually identify, streets and, like, neighborhoods where police misconduct is centralized from misconduct database, but that's how we added the comptroller.