THE POLICE COMMISSIONER’S REPORT JANUARY 2017 NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT VOLUME 80 ISSUES 1–2 TABLE OF CONTENTS LETTER FROM LETTER FROM PROTECTING THE MAYOR THE POLICE AND CONNECTING 5 7 COMMISSIONER 10 MANHATTAN MANHATTAN THE 14 SOUTH 20 NORTH 26 BRONX BROOKLYN BROOKLYN QUEENS 32 SOUTH 38 NORTH 44 SOUTH 2 QUEENS STATEN WHAT'S 50 NORTH 56 ISLAND 62 NEXT UNIFIED TECHNOLOGY COUNTER- 64 INVESTIGATIONS 72 76 TERRORISM COMMUNITY TRAINING A BANNER CONNECTION YEAR IN 80 84 88 CRIME FIGHTING SPRING 3100 ISSN #0038 8572 is published bi-monthly by the New York City Police Department, One Police Plaza, New York, 10038. Periodicals postage paid at New York City, NY. Postmaster: Send address changes to SPRING 3100 c/o New York City Police Department, One Police Plaza, New York, 10038. SPRING 3100 ©2016 by NYPD. All rights reserved; No part of this publication may be reproduced without written consent of the Editor. MESSAGE FROM MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO hen Bill Bratton and his team are the perfect choice officers are being given the time decided to retire as to fully implement the changes and latitude to engage with New York City Police begun in the past three years in neighborhoods as never before Commissioner, we the NYPD. and to pursue the real work could have embarked, of countering local crime and Wwith much fanfare, on a Those changes are bearing fruit in resolving local problems. nationwide search for a new police terms of both crime fighting and leader, but it would have been community connection. We are The rest of the NYPD agenda wholly unnecessary. In the past seeing dramatic declines in crime: supports what these local officers 30 years, mayors have tended to the lowest levels in murder since are doing: a decentralized appoint outsiders to the top job the late 1950s, the lowest levels for communications system that at One Police Plaza, but that’s not robbery, burglary, and auto theft puts a smartphone in the hand of necessary anymore, if it ever was. since the mid-1960s, and the lowest every officer; intensive training in Today’s NYPD is loaded with level for shootings on record. managing street encounters toward non-violent conclusions whenever executive talent, and even in that At the same time, the NYPD group, James O’Neill stood out. possible; and sharply targeted has scaled back on arrests and investigative work that is surgically Commissioner O’Neill is a summonses, which are down removing violent criminals from highly experienced operational 19 percent and 20 percent, those neighborhoods still plagued commander who has run respectively, in just the past two by violence. large commands like the 44th years. NYPD officers are exercising Precinct in the Bronx and critical far more discretion in the use of Three years ago, I said we could investigative units like the Fugitive their enforcement powers and are have both better community Enforcement Division. He is a working closely with neighborhood relations and declining crime, and police leader of the first order communities, policing with them that the former would actually who, throughout his career, has rather than at them. contribute to the latter. In their extraordinary work in literally won the loyalty and respect of his Neighborhood policing is at the cops and the appreciation and thousands of incidents and cases heart of the change agenda. It is across the city, the men and gratitude of the communities he important to understand that the has served. women of the NYPD and the neighborhood-policing approach community leaders of New York He is also an extremely insightful is not some public relations stunt are proving me right. and imaginative thinker about or a minor adjustment to the the complex issues that face the NYPD patrol model. This is the police profession today. Together most significant reorganization with First Deputy Commissioner of police patrol in 50 years. Benjamin Tucker and Chief of Anchored in sectors, which are Department Carlos Gomez, he subdivisions of our 77 precincts, 5 MESSAGE FROM POLICE COMMISSIONER JAMES P. O’NEILL lthough I wore a uniform that framework. We have re- fighting crime and keeping the for almost 34 years and sectored the precincts and tied city safe remain our primary served in nearly every police particular teams of officers to missions. But in fulfilling those rank, I never expected to particular sectors, so that they missions, we are building a be chief of patrol, chief of don’t leave their sectors except deepening partnership with the Adepartment, or certainly, in emergencies. We have staffed people of New York. Protecting police commissioner—all jobs I’ve the precincts with enough and connecting: we can and held in just the past three years. personnel to provide off-radio should do both. But even while serving in the time for officers to engage lower ranks, I had my ideas about with community members and This report is somewhat different where the department should go community problems, including from anything the NYPD has and how it should be organized. entrenched crime problems. We published before. It is designed And when I did reach the top have established a new police to give the reader a sense of just ranks, some of those ideas took role, neighborhood coordination how embedded our department shape as neighborhood policing, officers, to serve as community is in the daily life of New York our current initiative to reconnect liaisons and work with the sector City. Even before neighborhood cops and community while still cops. We have connected with policing, our cops cared about the fighting crime and disorder in community partners all across the people and the neighborhoods neighborhoods throughout the city. city who are helping us focus on they served; they just didn’t have local crime and local conditions. the time or the opportunity to As commander of the 44th establish the connections to take Precinct, a busy precinct in In the past, police work in their police work to a higher level. the Bronx, I could see that the precincts was divided into old police patrol model wasn’t specialties, with some cops Now they do, at the borough working well. For decades, we had answering calls for service, others level, at the precinct level, and at been asking our cops to connect doing community work, and still the sector level. better with communities, but others addressing conditions. We are hearing story after had never given them the time Under neighborhood policing, story about how officers were to do it. Worse, we had never we are fielding generalist police able to respond more quickly established an organizational officers who take on all of and more effectively to crime framework that would allow our these roles in the context of and other problems because officers to gain real familiarity neighborhoods that they know they are so firmly grounded in with the neighborhoods where well and understand. neighborhoods. And, I believe, we they work and that would support This is a giant undertaking. We have just scratched the surface of them in their efforts to improve what neighborhood policing can those neighborhoods. are remaking how we patrol the city and how we interact with accomplish. Neighborhood policing provides the public. We’re the police; so 7 James P. O’Neill William W. Andrews Robert K. Boyce POLICE COMMISSIONER DEPUTY COMMISSIONER CHIEF OF DETECTIVES STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS Thomas M. Chan John P. Beirne CHIEF OF TRANSPORTATION Benjamin B. Tucker DEPUTY COMMISSIONER LABOR RELATIONS FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Joseph Fox CHIEF OF TRANSIT Carlos M. Gomez Lawrence Byrne CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT DEPUTY COMMISSIONER LEGAL MATTERS Thomas P. Galati CHIEF OF INTELLIGENCE Stephen P. Davis Raymond Spinella DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Joanne Jaffe PUBLIC INFORMATION CHIEF OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS CHIEF OF STAFF Edna D. Wells Handy Vincent Grippo Terence A. Monahan DEPUTY COMMISSIONER CHIEF OF PATROL COUNSEL TO THE POLICE COMMISSIONER MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET William T. Morris Susan Herman CHIEF OF MANHATTAN SOUTH DEPUTY COMMISSIONER COLLABORATIVE POLICING Diana L. Pizzuti Tracie L. Keesee CHIEF OF PERSONNEL DEPUTY COMMISSIONER TRAINING Thomas P. Purtell CHIEF OF CITYWIDE OPERATIONS Rosemarie Maldonado DEPUTY COMMISSIONER James A. Secreto TRIALS CHIEF OF HOUSING Robert S. Martinez Dermot F. Shea DEPUTY COMMISSIONER CHIEF OF CRIME CONTROL STRATEGIES SUPPORT SERVICES John J. Miller Kevin P. Ward CHIEF OF MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AND PLANNING INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM Cathleen S. Perez James R. Waters CHIEF OF COUNTERTERRORISM DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ADMINISTRATION Eli D. Kleinman, MD, MPH Joseph J. Reznick SUPERVISING CHIEF SURGEON DEPUTY COMMISSIONER INTERNAL AFFAIRS Rabbi Dr. Alvin Kass CHIEF CHAPLAIN Kevin S. Richardson DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DEPARTMENT ADVOCATE Jessica S. Tisch DEPUTY COMMISSIONER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Zachary Tumin DEPUTY COMMISSIONER STRATEGIC INITIATIVES Neldra M. Zeigler DEPUTY COMMISSIONER EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT Police Officer Rocio Castillo, who, upon graduation, has been assigned to Police Service Area 7. NCOs from the 9th Precinct, Detective Shinji Suzuki and Police Officer Ruben Nuñez, drop in on a local storeowner. PROTECTING AND CONNECTING Neighborhood Policing Connects with Communities and Fights Crime he need to close the gap Neighborhood policing, Police at the way the precincts were set between cops and the Commissioner James O’Neill’s up, they really were not given community has become comprehensive initiative to the opportunity to do that,” said increasingly apparent in increase police and community Commissioner O’Neill. “Half the recent years. Typically, connectivity, is helping New York precinct cops were responding Tlaw-abiding citizens only City residents get to know their to 9-1-1 calls, and on a busy get to know the officers in their cops in a brand new way. Thursday, Friday, or Saturday community through the lens of night—even in one of the less public spectacle and negative “We’ve been asking our cops, for busy commands—each patrol car media attention.