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Current State of the NYPD Reference Guide for the Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Process October 2020 Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative – NYPD Resource Guide Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 1 Law Enforcement Operations ............................................................................................................................. 3 Neighborhood Policing ................................................................................................................................... 3 Violence Reduction ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Hotspot Policing & Focused Deterrence ........................................................................................................ 5 U se of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) ................................................................................................. 6 No-Knock Warrants ........................................................................................................................................ 6 F acial Recognition........................................................................................................................................... 7 DNA ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Hate Crimes .................................................................................................................................................... 8 911 Call Centers .............................................................................................................................................. 9 “Stop and Frisk;” Pretextual Stops; Quotas .................................................................................................... 9 Using Summonses Rather than Warrantless Arrests for Specified Offenses ...............................................10 Crowd Control & “Demilitarization” .............................................................................................................11 S trategies for Redeploying Police Resources to Other Agencies .................................................................13 D iversion and Restorative Justice ................................................................................................................14 Community Partnerships ..................................................................................................................................15 C ommunity Outreach ...................................................................................................................................15 Community Councils, Citizen Advisory Boards, and Committees ................................................................17 Youth Engagement .......................................................................................................................................17 Underrepresented Communities ..................................................................................................................18 Policy and Training ...........................................................................................................................................19 De-Escalation ................................................................................................................................................19 Use of Force Reporting and Accountability (Internal) ..................................................................................20 Use of Force Reporting and Accountability (External) .................................................................................21 Use of Force for Punitive or Retaliatory Reasons .........................................................................................22 Use of Chokeholds or Other Restrictions on Breathing ...............................................................................22 Shooting at Motor Vehicles/High Speed Pursuits ........................................................................................23 L ess-than-Lethal Weaponry .........................................................................................................................23 I mplicit Bias Training ....................................................................................................................................24 Other Trainings .............................................................................................................................................25 Police Department Accreditation .................................................................................................................26 Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative – NYPD Resource Guide Public Reporting/Policy and Compliance .....................................................................................................27 Internal Data Use to Drive Policy Decisions .................................................................................................27 T ransparency ................................................................................................................................................28 Effectiveness of Training Programs ..............................................................................................................29 Accountability and Discipline ...........................................................................................................................31 Administrative Disciplinary Process .............................................................................................................31 Early Intervention Systems (EIS) ...................................................................................................................32 “Near Miss” Events & Response ...................................................................................................................33 Officers Reporting Other Officer Misconduct ..............................................................................................33 Impartial Reviews & Accountability .............................................................................................................34 Policies and Values While Off Duty ..............................................................................................................35 Public Complaints .........................................................................................................................................35 Legislative Oversight & Reporting ................................................................................................................36 Recruitment, Retention & Resiliency ...............................................................................................................38 R ecruitment ..................................................................................................................................................38 Diverse Leadership .......................................................................................................................................38 Leadership Selection & Discretionary Promotions .......................................................................................39 Retention ......................................................................................................................................................40 E valuations & Advancing Goals ....................................................................................................................41 Health & Wellness ........................................................................................................................................42 S cheduling ....................................................................................................................................................43 Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative – NYPD Resource Guide Introduction The purpose of this document is to outline the current practices of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for the Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Working Group, following a comprehensive review of the current state of the NYPD that took place in the late summer and early fall of 2020. The NYPD prepared this reference guide in the interest of transparency. This guide provides a base-line education for any Working Group reader on the reform efforts undertaken by the current administration, throughout an era of rapid changes in policing and criminal justice. It maps the State’s Executive Order and associated Guidance1 to today’s NYPD. This guide is intended to provide a current-state status, or a snapshot in time, of all mandatory and permissive subjects in the New York State Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Guidance, in order to inform the Working Group’s focus and resource allocation going forward. In that regard, this document does not purport to be a complete overview of NYPD policy, practice, training, or programmatic approaches to public safety, but is instead limited in scope to subjects at issue in the Executive Order. The information contained herein in is largely publicly available, but is not otherwise available in an aggregate form. The NYPD is the