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

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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 m e s s a g e f r o m 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. To change this, 40 or 50 years now, to establish a was still dispatched to 20 to 25 the NYPD has been systematically better connectivity to the people jobs a night. Where, in the course restructuring its patrol plan. in the community, but if you look of that tour, were we giving our

10 cops any opportunity to make a connection with anyone in the community? We really didn’t. They were going from job to job to job, just trying to clear the screen and doing the best they could.” The other half of the precinct didn’t have the opportunity either. “These were our specialty officers,” Commissioner O’Neill says. “They were doing local narcotics work, quality-of-life policing, domestic violence, anti-crime patrol, and 34th Precinct NCOs, Police Officers Kiesha Lawhorne important administrative work and Bryan Polster. to keep the precinct running. So, where in the course of their day, did they have the opportunity to make better connections with the community? I would venture to say that they weren’t given that opportunity.” Neighborhood policing divides calls. The off-radio time is used Starting in spring 2015, the precincts into four or five fully to engage with neighborhood department began rolling out staffed sectors that correspond, as residents, identify problems, and neighborhood policing, which is much as possible, to the boundaries work toward solutions. Sector now active in 52 commands and of actual existing neighborhoods. officers have 33 percent of their counting. Neighborhood policing Sector officers work the same eight-hour tours, or about two is designed to greatly increase the neighborhoods on the same hours and 20 minutes each day, connectivity that Commissioner shifts, increasing their familiarity devoted to community-based, O’Neill talks about without with the local residents and local proactive, and problem-solving diminishing, and while actually problems. The radio dispatchers, activities. improving, the NYPD’s crime- supervisors, and sector officers fighting capabilities. work together to maintain “sector “The idea is that we don’t have integrity,” meaning that the sector separate community officers, officers and sector cars do not leave separate conditions officers, and the boundaries of their assigned separate officers to answer calls,” sectors, except in emergencies. said Chief of Department Carlos sectors and Neighborhood policing seeks Gomez, who worked closely with to foster a sense of geographic Commissioner O’Neill on the sector officers responsibility and accountability design of neighborhood policing. among sector officers for the “The sector officer plays all “The key to this is that we’re people, problems, and even the these roles. We want a generalist re-sectoring every one of the perpetrators in their particular cop who knows, and feels precincts throughout the city,” sectors. responsible for, the sector and explained Commissioner O’Neill. who provides the full range of “We are anchoring our cops in Neighborhood policing policing services there.” the sectors, so that they know and commands are sufficiently staffed take responsibility for particular to permit off-radio time for the pieces of ground and the people sector officers, so they are not who live there.” exclusively assigned to answering

11 67th Precinct Police Officer Jessica Quiros, getting to know students at a school within her sector.

neighborhood coordination officers

Supporting the sector officers of Patrol Terence Monahan, in quick, effective, and cooperative and filling out each sector team another architect of neighborhood ways. These officers, supported by are two officers designated as policing. “They are part patrol sector integrity and off-radio time, the neighborhood coordination officer, part community officer, as well as cutting-edge technology officers (NCOs). The NCOs are part intelligence officer, and part and training, are not only effective liaisons between the police and detective. They are the team crime-fighters, but genuine pillars the community, as well as key leaders in the sector, but the sector of the community. crime fighters and problem-solvers officers, who are in the sector in the sector. They spend time around the clock, are also critically Under neighborhood policing, familiarizing themselves with the important. This doesn’t work and with the help of concerned community to better respond without the sector officers.” citizens, NCOs and sector officers to neighborhood-specific crime are closing the divide between and other conditions. The NCOs There can’t be a community cops and community while attend community meetings without communication, and a continuing to keep New York City with neighborhood leaders and community can’t be safe without neighborhoods safe. clergy, visit schools, follow up the police. Sector officers and on previous incidents, and use NCOs are engaging in dialogue creative techniques and adaptive with local residents about sharing skills to fight crime and contend responsibility for the well being with other problems in their and safety of their neighborhoods. particular sectors. They are the ideal middle ground, providing accountability for the “As with the sector officers, the police in the eyes of the public, NCOs are generalists,” said Chief while simultaneously fighting crime

12 neighborhood policing commands

13 MANHATTAN SOUTH

iving in New York City, it’s Building, City Hall, and “You’re not always seeing easy to lose sight of the fact NYPD headquarters. the same faces in a lot of our that the southern portion of neighborhoods,” explained Chief Manhattan, which makes up PBMS has many residential of Manhattan South William Patrol Borough Manhattan neighborhoods tucked between its Morris. “This adds an extra twist LSouth (PBMS), is, in many commercial and financial districts. to policing in our patrol borough. ways, the center of the world and Most residents are from various But beyond the shining lights one of the most important hubs European backgrounds but there and the city that never sleeps, on the globe. The patrol borough are Hispanic and Latino groups there are neighborhoods here and begins just below Central Park in both the northwestern and people who live here every day. It’s and encompasses all of lower southeastern corners of the patrol our job not only to patrol those Manhattan. Reachable by multiple borough, and prominent East neighborhoods, but to connect bridges and tunnels, the patrol Asian communities, including with those people.” borough is also crossed by nearly Chinatown, the city’s largest all of the city’s subway lines. These concentration of people of Neighborhood policing was access points are critical because so Chinese descent. launched in PBMS in October many people, including millions of tourists, travel to and from lower Manhattan every day. Many landmarks associated with New York City are nestled in PBMS: the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center, and the Statue of Liberty. The skyscrapers of the financial district and Midtown form one of the world’s most recognizable skylines. The patrol borough features world- renowned attractions like Times Square and the Broadway theater district, Greenwich Village and New York University, Grand Central Station, Madison Square Garden, and the Museum of Modern Art. Manhattan South also houses the New York Stock Exchange, the United Nations PSA 4 NCO Sergeant Kwame Pascal, showing his NCOs how to engage the community. 14 2016, in both the 9th Precinct and Police Service Area 4, a command within the NYPD Housing Bureau that is responsible for patrolling the housing developments of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). “It’s still new to them,” said Inspector Thomas Connolly, operations commander for PBMS, “But quite frankly, I’m nothing short of amazed at how successful our NCOs and sector officers have been already. That speaks volumes, not only about our cops, but about neighborhood policing as well.”

NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING COMMANDS PSA 4

“Many of the he Housing Bureau’s domestic violence. With improved neighborhoods we serve Police Service Area (PSA) community contact, officers are are seen as affluent, but 4 operates out of the East directly in touch with people, so Village in the 9th Precinct. cops and community can combat rents are high in lower Officers from PSA 4 patrol the most prevalent and serious Manhattan. People T32 NYCHA housing issues together. don’t realize there is a developments within the 5th, 7th, whole population living 9th, and 10th Precincts, covering “Many of the neighborhoods nearly 40,000 residents in such we serve are seen as affluent,” here who can’t afford said Captain John Potkay, those rents. That’s the neighborhoods as Chelsea, Nolita, Chinatown, Two Bridges, the East commanding officer of PSA 4. “But rents are high in lower population we serve, Village, and the Lower East Side. Manhattan. People don’t realize all 40,000 of them. And While the housing complexes there is a whole population living with neighborhood in these neighborhoods don’t here who can’t afford those rents. see high numbers of murders or policing, we’re finding a That’s the population we serve, new avenue for reaching shootings, there are significant all 40,000 of them. And with them and being reached numbers of grand larcenies and neighborhood policing, we’re felony assaults, many tied to by them.”

captain john potkay, commanding officer of psa 4

Some of PSA 4’s NCOs: Police Officers Ramona Gomez, Miguel Duran, Kevin Dwyer, and Gene Ruda. 16 finding a new avenue for reaching them and being reached by them.” “My NCOs have adapted quickly to their new roles,” adds Sergeant Harry Pakiakis, NCO supervisor “My NCOs have adapted quickly to their for PSA 4. “But what’s really new roles, but what’s really amazing is amazing is how quickly we’re how quickly we’re seeing the community seeing the community adapt to them. We’re seeing a response adapt to them. We’re seeing a response in in real time. We’re seeing a real time. We’re seeing a difference. We’re difference. We’re already counting already counting our successes.” our successes.” sergeant harry pakiakis, Residents are getting to know psa 4 nco supervisor the faces and names of their officers, and their phone numbers and email addresses as well. The growing connectivity with the police is providing a tangible sense of security for the residents living in these NYCHA developments. SECTOR DAVID

“Neighborhood policing ot long ago, an NYPD officer In PSA 4’s sector David, police puts the community in would have never dreamed officers Elizabeth Nuez and touch with their cops. of having a department- Milton Torres, the sector’s issued smartphone, let alone There is a direct line of neighborhood coordination sharing contact information officers (NCOs), are a good communication forming. Nwith crime victims and example of the NYPD’s new In this case, a domestic community members. The times standard for officers—well violence victim was able have changed, and the department rounded, effective, and easily is fielding more approachable and to reach our cops directly. accessible. When a woman came accessible officers. Sector officers, into PSA 4 to make a formal Who knows what could enabled by modern-day technology, complaint that her partner had have happened to her are improving response time and when her attacker got issue resolution. savagely beaten her in their home, had our officers not been there to greet him.”

captain john potkay, commanding officer of psa 4

18 apartment, Officers Nuez and Torres gave her their phone numbers and email addresses. They told her that if her attacker should return home, to call immediately. Within hours, their phones were ringing. Officers Nuez and Torres, with fellow PSA 4 NCO, Police Officer Anowar Raza, raced to the apartment and arrested the man before he was able to do any more damage. Because the woman had the direct phone numbers of Police Officers Elizabeth Nuez, Milton Torres, and Anowar Raza, NCOs from PSA’s 4 sector David, officers working in her sector, they recently assisted the victim of domestic abuse. were able to arrive immediately and prevent another assault. “Neighborhood policing puts the community in touch with their cops,” explained Captain John was able to reach our cops directly. Potkay, commanding officer of Who knows what could have PSA 4. “There is a direct line of happened to her when her attacker communication forming. In this got home, had our officers not case, a domestic violence victim been there to greet him.”

Accessibility

Thanks to neighborhood policing, police officers are more accessible to the public. Because officers maintain sector integrity, they’re never far from the next call and can often respond at a moment’s notice. Their smartphones and tablets cut out the middleman, establishing a direct line of communication between cops and community.

“I can’t say enough about the difference it makes to have direct access to a cop when you’re in need,” said Raul Duran, assistant director of the Meltzer Tower Senior Center. “Now we can call, text, and email our officers directly. And they respond, night and day. Even if they’re off duty, they relay messages and find ways to assist.” MANHATTAN NORTH

tretching from 59th Street to PBMN comprises twelve densely are home to communities of 220th Street, Patrol Borough populated precincts; as well as people who, I believe, desperately Manhattan North (PBMN) Police Service Areas (PSAs) 5 wanted to connect with the covers the hustle and bustle and 6, and Transit Districts 1 police, and who we really wanted of the east and west sides, and 3. Neighborhood policing to connect with, too. Now we’re Stwo sprawling residential is established in the 23rd, 25th, doing just that.” neighborhoods flanking the 28th, 30th, 32nd, 33rd, and 34th emerald fields of Central Park. “Applying neighborhood policing Precincts and both PSAs. The in Manhattan North is integral Further north are the storied 33rd and the 34th were among streets of Harlem and one of the because this is a crucial chunk of the first four precincts to pilot one of the busiest, most densely city’s larger concentrations of neighborhood policing. Hispanic residents in Washington populated cities in the world,” said Inspector Douglas Rolston, who Heights. Columbia University and “The 33rd and 34th Precincts helps Assistant Chief O’Reilly in City College sit on promontories were perfect choices for overseeing Manhattan North’s high above the Hudson River. neighborhood policing precincts,” application of neighborhood The patrol borough draws tourists said Assistant Chief Kathleen with world-renowned attractions policing. “Neighborhood policing O’Reilly, who commands Patrol is about not only reaching and like the Metropolitan Museum of Borough Manhattan North. “They Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and other art showcases along Fifth Avenue’s famed museum mile. There is also the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Zoo, Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater, and The Cloisters, a treasure house of medieval art in Fort Tryon Park. A large Hispanic population inhabits much of the patrol borough’s northern section in Inwood, East Harlem, and Washington Heights, which is home to the largest population of Dominicans in the city. African-Americans live in and around Harlem and people of European ancestry to the east and west of Central Park. Police Officers Alan Hassel and Jose Genao, NCOs from the 33rd Precinct. 20 MANHATTAN NORTH

establishing a stronger bond with the immensely diverse population of this patrol borough, but also the people coming in and going out of it every day: the visitors. If they have to leave, we want them to leave with a positive and professional opinion of the NYPD.”

NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING COMMANDS 34TH PRECINCT

“Our NCOs and sector he 34th Precinct spans two Mundo, commanding officer of Neighborhood square miles and 500 acres the 34th Precinct. “They know the Coordination officers feel responsible Officers (NCO) for their sectors. They of parkland, serving the people that live and work in their communities of Washington sectors and in a lot of ways, these know the people that Heights and Inwood at the are their neighborhoods.” live and work in their Tnorthern tip of Manhattan, sectors, and in a lot of north of West 179th Street. There are roughly 100 bars in ways, these are their It is home to a diverse ethnic, the 34th Precinct, attracting people from all over to the area’s neighborhoods.” cultural, and economic blend. Neighborhood coordination officers renowned night life. Residents deputy inspector (NCOs) and sector cops have complain about the noise, and reymundo mundo, been working in the 34th Precinct the precinct led the city in noise commanding officer since spring 2015 and have made complaints in 2015. As a result, of the 34th precinct significant progress. Deputy Inspector Reymundo Mundo, NCO Sergeant Juan “Our NCOs and sector officers Terrero, and the 34th Precinct feel responsible for their sectors,” NCOs held a night-life summit, said Deputy Inspector Reymundo where representatives from local

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bars and restaurants worked with police to resolve many of the surrounding community’s complaints, while simultaneously “ We want these keeping their businesses thriving. Award, one of the highest honors businesses to do well. “We want these businesses to bestowed on civil servants. The But we also want to do well,” said Sergeant Terrero. pair, who were hailed for their protect the interests of exemplary ability to fight crime “But we also want to protect the residents who like to get interests of residents who like to while simultaneously forging get to sleep at a decent hour. It’s strong community bonds, were to sleep at a decent hour. about finding that middle ground also given a $10,000 check, which It’s about finding that that all parties can agree on.” they promptly donated to the middle ground that all Michael Buczek Foundation. The parties can agree on.” The community in the 34th organization runs a little league Precinct has been more than in Washington Heights that was sergeant juan terrero, receptive to the NCOs and founded in memory of Police nco supervisor for sector cops. Detectives Thomas Officer Michael Buczek who was the 34th precinct Troppmann and Edwin Rodriguez, assigned to the 34th Precinct NCOs from the 34th Precinct, and killed in the line of received the Sloan Public Service duty in 1988. Detective Fabio Nuñez and Police Officer Peter Johnson are the NCOs for the 34th SECTOR CHARLIE Precinct’s sector Charlie.

“It’s utterly amazing that ector Charlie lies in the Fabio Nuñez and Police Officer a game, a simple idea, northeastern corner of the Peter Johnson, sector Charlie’s and a challenge created 34th Precinct in Inwood NCOs, subsequently worked and contains a large number with the club’s management to unity, and ultimately led of bars and restaurants that conduct a complete overhaul of to a cleaner New York Sdraw crowds just about the security detail, replacing every City park. I am extremely every night of the week. The member of the security staff with proud of my NCOs Opus Lounge, in particular, had more capable and responsible and sector officers for generated numerous noise and employees, and the bar went from disorderly conduct complaints, being a prime location for police continuously developing and even saw the precinct’s first intervention to a functional and ideas and strategies to homicide of the year. Detective welcome venue. address the concerns of their sectors.”

deputy inspector reymundo mundo, commanding officer of the 34th precinct

24 Police Officers Carlos Delrosario and Rafael Moscoso, sector officers from sector Charlie, feel responsible for the neighborhood. When they noticed garbage strewn across High Bridge Park’s grounds and a group of teens playing basketball despite the shabby condition of their surroundings, they thought it was time to intervene. The sector officers asked the teens how they could let the park become so filthy, and one outspoken boy responded that it Police Officers Carlos Delrosario and Rafael Moscoso, sector wasn’t their responsibility to keep officers from the 34th Precinct’s sector Charlie, playing an impromptu basketball game with a group of teens in their sector. the park clean. Officer Delrosario, challenged the teen to a one-on-one game of basketball, with the following stakes: the game’s loser would have to clean up the park. The members of the community who to a cleaner New York City park,” boy accepted, and after a rousing had gathered to watch the game, said Deputy Inspector Reymundo match-up, Officer Delrosario joined in to help. Mundo. “I am extremely proud of emerged victorious. The teen and my NCOs and sector officers for “It’s utterly amazing that a game, his friends stayed true to their continuously developing ideas and a simple idea, and a challenge strategies to address the concerns word and began to pick up litter, created unity, and ultimately led and the sector officers, along with of their sectors.”

Creativity

Neighborhood policing takes proven, well-trained, sector-based officers, gives them off-radio time to build and reinforce ties with the community, and affords them the freedom to do something that has long been discouraged in policing—be creative. Officers are encouraged to become problem-solvers and to use their training and native ingenuity to fight crime and solve problems while reinforcing community bonds.

“This approach to policing has given officers the ability to really own their sectors,” said Juan Manuel Lebron, owner of Lebron Restaurant Equipment and Supply. “These officers seem to feel a sense of pride in, and commitment to, their sectors, which ultimately, I feel, encourages creativity in finding ways to address unique concerns.” THE BRONX

he only patrol borough that and Baychester home. The Bronx’s and the business community are is part of the U.S. mainland, white communities are more actively engaged in public safety. Patrol Borough Bronx scattered, with many Irish- and There is a strong desire to enhance (PBBX) is bordered by the Italian-Americans in central areas the partnership that already exists Westchester County cities of like Morris Park and along the between the Bronx precincts and TYonkers and Mount Vernon eastern stretch of Throgs Neck. these communities. This is why in the north and separated from Significant Russian, Ukrainian, neighborhood policing has been Manhattan by the Harlem River. and Polish communities reside in embraced and is successful in No less than 11 bridges connect the neighborhoods like Riverdale in the Bronx.” Bronx to Manhattan. The Robert F. the northwest. Kennedy Bridge leads to Manhattan Patrol Borough Bronx includes and Queens; and the Whitestone “Bronxites are very proud of their twelve precincts, two transit and Throgs Neck bridges carry borough, and rightfully so,” said districts, and two police service travelers to northern Queens. Assistant Chief Larry Nikunen, areas. Of the eight patrol commanding officer of PBBX. boroughs, PBBX currently has One of the greatest metropolitan “It is made up of beautiful, the most neighborhood policing menageries in the United States, diverse, and culturally rich commands, with the 40th, 41st, the Bronx Zoo, is nestled dead neighborhoods where residents 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 46th, 47th, center in the borough. It is also home to Yankee Stadium, the New York Botanical Garden, Fordham University, and the authentic Italian pastries and world-renowned pizza sold on Arthur Avenue. About a quarter of the borough is parkland, and the rest is packed with a variety of residential districts. Dominican residents have settled in the western part of the borough in neighborhoods like Highbridge, and Puerto Rican and other Latino groups reside in the southern part in areas like Mott Haven. African- and Caribbean-Americans call neighborhoods like Eastchester Police Officers Andres Gomez and Tatiana Espinal, PSA 7 NCOs, know the residents in the developments that they patrol very well. 26 48th, and 52nd Precincts all active, along with PSAs 7 and 8. “This is a complex borough,” said Inspector Brian Mullen, PBBX’s operations commander. “We have strong communities with proud, engaged citizens, but some are challenged with crime and violence. Our neighborhood coordination officers and sector cops work to improve our community relations, but also play a vital role in our crime-fighting strategies.”

NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING COMMANDS 40TH PRECINCT

“ Poverty is the ultimate he 40th Precinct is the the federal poverty line and receive motivator, but to do what southernmost precinct in one type of government is always the question. Patrol Borough Bronx. The assistance or another. command encompasses Port When people are down Morris, a sparsely populated “Poverty is the ultimate and out, they can find Tindustrial and warehouse motivator,” said Deputy Inspector themselves tempted to district; Mott Haven, with dense Brian Hennessy, commanding commit certain crimes. residential areas and a pair of officer of the 40th Precinct. “When people are down and out, But I think that their commercial zones; and Melrose, which also has both residential they can find themselves tempted vulnerability can be and commercial sections. to commit certain crimes. But I tapped into for good, think that their vulnerability can as well.” The 40th Precinct serves a largely be tapped into for good, as well.” Puerto Rican community, with deputy inspector smaller percentages of black, Index crime in the precinct has brian hennessy, Mexican, Dominican, and white ticked upward over the past year, commanding officer residents. A majority of the but Deputy Inspector Hennessy, of the 40th precinct precinct’s inhabitants are under his NCO Sergeant Matthew

Police Officers Ezequiel Martinez and Brett Ortiz, NCOs from the 40th Precinct. 28 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO)

Feigenbaum, and the precinct NCOs and sector officers are "It’s about getting to focused on making things better. know these people, 40th Precinct are making valuable some of whom are “Neighborhood policing is contacts in a community that about a lot more than carrying truly needs them, connecting struggling, and a little old lady’s groceries home them with needed services. In truly being there for for her,” said Sergeant Matthew turn, the community is providing them. It’s also about Feigenbaum, NCO supervisor for valuable intel regarding crime in steering people, who the 40th Precinct. “It’s about: Are their neighborhoods. you able to buy your groceries this could be on the cusp week? How can we find you the of bad decisions, in help you need? It’s about getting the right direction.” to know these people, some of whom are struggling, and truly sergeant matthew being there for them. It’s also feigenbaum, about steering people, who could nco supervisor be on the cusp of bad decisions, in for the 40th precinct the right direction.” NCOs and sector officers in the SECTOR DAVID

“That boy could have ff-radio time, one of the the sector officers in a precinct. hurt someone else, or staples of neighborhood This support allows NCOs and himself, but because policing, means that sector cops to stay within the NCOs and sector officers Officer Donalds had confines of their sectors, working aren’t restricted to chasing with local residents to solve done her homework— Ocalls for service across the problems and combat crime. knew her sector and precinct. Sector officers actively the people in it—no respond to 9-1-1 calls, but off- Police Officer Natasha Donalds, one else got hurt.” radio time is programmed into an NCO from Sector David uses their schedules so they can meet her off-radio time to engage the deputy inspector and work with neighborhood community and has made trusted brian hennessy, residents. Meanwhile, officers in points of contact all across her commanding officer response cars back up all sector. She has established a strong of the 40th precinct

30 working relationship with the staff of a special education school that serves behaviorally challenged students, aged eight to 21. When a student assaulted the principal so severely that he had to be hospitalized, Officer Donalds used her connections with school staff and her knowledge of the building to deduce where the student might be hiding after the attack. Searching the area, she was able to apprehend the troubled boy, and get him the help he needed. “That boy could have hurt someone else, or himself,” said Deputy Inspector Brian Hennessy, “but because Officer Donalds had done her homework—knew her Local business owners enjoy being able to have a sector and the people in it—no conversation about the neighborhood with sector David’s NCOs, Police Officers Clement Krug and Argenis Rosado. one else got hurt.”

Proactivity

With neighborhood policing, NCOs are spending most of their tours away from the radio, and sector officers spend a third of theirs the same way. This allows officers to be proactive in their policing—whether it comes in the form of enforcement or community building.

“Neighborhood policing allows for cops to act proactively instead of reactively,” said William Valentine, owner of South Side Food Corp. “That alone changes the game completely.” BROOKLYN SOUTH

he border between Patrol to another, and it’s like you’re in Orthodox Jewish families Borough Brooklyn South another country. It’s beautiful. live in Borough Park. Black (PBBS) and Brooklyn North We’re our own little melting pot. residents, of both African and runs northwest to southeast, But how do we serve all of the Caribbean descent, reside in along the neighborhoods of people who make up that melting the northeast quadrant of the TRed Hook, Carroll Gardens, pot? By getting to know them all, patrol borough, and there are Gowanus, Park Slope, southern individually, the same way Chinese communities within Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts we would want to be treated neighborhoods like Bensonhurst Gardens, East Flatbush, and and understood.” and Sunset Park. Brighton Beach Canarsie. The patrol borough has many Ukrainian, Russian, stretches south to Seagate, Brighton While the majority of residents and Uzbek residents; Parkville Beach, and Manhattan Beach. in PBBS are white, people from has the city’s largest population of across the globe make the patrol Pakistanis; and East Flatbush is Visitors to Brooklyn South can borough one of New York City’s home to people of Haitian origin. hit the beach; take in a show at more diverse communities. Barclays Center or Kings Theatre; Greenwood and Sunset Park “Brooklyn South, cop and catch a ball game at MCU Park; are home to large Hispanic community alike, was struck hard ride the Coney Island Cyclone and Latino communities, and by Hurricane Sandy,” said Deputy at Luna Park; or go for a stroll in Prospect Park, designed, like Manhattan’s Central Park, by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. With the New York Aquarium, Brooklyn Museum, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, there’s something in PBBS for everyone. The patrol borough connects to Manhattan by the Brooklyn- Battery Tunnel; to Staten Island by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge; and to Queens South by the Marine Parkway Bridge. “Our precincts are all completely distinct,” said Assistant Chief Steven Powers, the commanding officer of PBBS. “You could be walking through one precinct 72nd Precinct NCOs, Police Officers Krista Anderson, Sue Liu, and Philip Buonora, visiting a local nursing home. 32 BROOKLYN SOUTH

Inspector John Rowell, operations commander for PBBS. “We’ve NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING been through a lot together, and COMMANDS we’re not all so different after all. We try to impart that outlook to our cops who are practicing neighborhood policing.” 67TH PRECINCT

“Neighborhood policing he 67th Precinct covers most Neighborhood policing was takes some of your best of East Flatbush. It’s largely introduced in the precinct in cops, further trains them, residential with many private October 2015. The plan is forging homes. The precinct also well–rounded cops here, skilled at and enables them to go contains two small industrial dismantling criminal enterprises places that cops have Tareas, four large commercial and winning over a community never gone before, into strips, and two large housing that is typically not quick to trust a the hearts of the people developments. The officers of blue uniform. These days, most of we serve. I’ve also seen the 67th Precinct serve a mostly the precinct’s residents are happy working-class population, to see NCOs and sector officers my NCOs and sector taking care of a range of issues in officers develop into primarily comprised of residents of West Indian descent. In recent and around their homes. great crime fighters. times, immigrants from Haiti, And it’s not just me and “Neighborhood policing takes Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, some of your best cops, further the department who Trinidad, Grenada, Panama, and trains them, and enables them are proud of them. The the Dominican Republic have to go places that cops have never community appreciates settled in the 67th Precinct. them as much as we do.”

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67th Precinct Police Officer Candice Smith knows the importance of forging bonds with the kids in the community she patrols. 34 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO)

gone before, into the hearts of the people we serve,” explained Inspector Joseph Gulotta, commanding officer of the 67th Precinct, “I’ve also seen my NCOs and sector officers develop into great crime fighters. And it’s not just me and the department “People are seeing an RMP on their street, or an who are proud of them. The community appreciates them as officer in their neighborhood as a good thing. much as we do.” It’s about solving the problems that people bring up at community council meetings. It’s “People are seeing an RMP on their street, or an officer in their about solving the problems that people bring neighborhood, as a good thing,” up on the street. And people are taking notice.” adds Sergeant Bruno Pierre, sergeant bruno pierre, NCO supervisor for the 67th nco supervisor for the 67th precinct Precinct. “It’s about solving the problems that people bring up at community council meetings. It’s about solving the problems that people bring up on the street. And people are taking notice.” 67th Precinct NCO, Detective James Berk explains how he apprehended several armed gang members at a vacant building to his new partner, Police SECTOR CHARLIE Officer Earl Rochester, as they pass by.

“The area around the he versatility of makes a point of talking with school is used by gang neighborhood coordination everyone he meets in his sector. members to recruit officers is illustrated by a Neighborhood residents pointed him in the direction of a vacant younger members. Their case from sector Charlie in the northeastern corner of home and storefront that had presence is felt by these Tthe 67th Precinct. Detective squatters inside, dealing and kids, even at a young James Berk and Police Officer using drugs. age. The mentorship Earl Rochester are relatively new Detective Berk arrested eight program combats their partners, but Detective Berk is trespassers and obtained a search efforts to recruit kids not new to sector Charlie. He warrant for the premises that around the school. Our NCOs are actively combatting crime as it’s happening and working to keep it from happening in the future.”

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36 resulted in the recovery of a .45 caliber gun and a raft of stolen credit cards, debit cards, driver licenses, social security cards, and school identification cards, much of it taken at gunpoint from NYU students in Manhattan. The owner of the building is now in full possession of the premises, and the recovered I.D. cards helped to close 14 open armed robbery cases in Patrol Borough Manhattan South. Detective Berk has also helped to implement a mentorship program Detective James Berk and Police Officer Earl Rochester create lasting relationships at The Emma Lazarus School. The with the youth in their sector. aim of the program is to deter kids from joining gangs later in life by building relationships with them now. Officers meet with students after school and occasionally drop by during regular school hours to check in and spend time with the younger members,” said Inspector kids around the school. Our greater student body. Joseph Gulotta. “Their presence is NCOs are actively combatting felt by these kids, even at a young crime as it’s happening and “The area around the school is age. The mentorship program working to keep it from used by gang members to recruit combats their efforts to recruit happening in the future.”

Versatility

Simultaneously combating crime and making connections with the community demonstrates the inherent versatility of neighborhood policing officers. Whether getting guns off the street, closing out a robbery pattern, attending a community meeting, or connecting a needy citizen with resources and services that could aid them––officers have the time and the means to tackle whatever comes their way.

“Time spent away from the radio, and the fact that these officers are in the same sectors daily, fuels their ability to perform in a variety of capacities,” said Rick Romain, assistant principal of The Emma Lazarus School. “These are some of the most versatile crime-fighters the city has ever seen.” BROOKLYN NORTH

atrol Borough Brooklyn Italian, Irish, Polish, Russian, and Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, North (PBBN) runs from Ukrainian ancestry. There is also commanding officer of PBBN. Greenpoint in the north, a significant Hispanic and Latino “The demographic landscape is down to Brooklyn Heights presence in the northern parts constantly changing here. You’ve on the west, and stretches of the patrol borough, including got people who feel like they’re P east through Crown Heights people of Puerto Rican and losing ground, and you’ve got and Bedford-Stuyvesant to East Dominican descent. A very large people moving in who shouldn’t New York. Three bridges connect African-American population lives have to feel unwelcome. It’s to Lower Manhattan, the iconic in the southern and eastern areas of important to mediate that, and Brooklyn Bridge, which was the the patrol borough, with Bedford- with neighborhood policing, that’s tallest structure in the city when Stuyvesant representing the largest what we’re doing.” it was built in the 1880s; the concentration of native-born black Manhattan Bridge, connecting citizens citywide. Neighborhood policing is up Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and running in the 73rd, 75th, with Canal Street in Manhattan; “Reaching out to the people 77th, 79th, 81st, 84th, 88th, and and the Williamsburg Bridge, in our borough through 94th Precincts, along with Police which links Williamsburg with neighborhood policing is so Service Areas 2 and 3. Manhattan’s Lower East Side. important,” said Assistant The borough is home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a world-class theater and entertainment venue, as well as tourist attractions like the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the Brooklyn Brewery. In recent years, neighborhoods like Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Bushwick have experienced an independent rock- and-roll renaissance not unlike the one seen in Manhattan during the 1970s, with music venues scattered throughout northern Brooklyn, offering live music nightly. The northern areas of PBBN are predominately white, with residents of English, Scandinavian, Detective Conrad Narcisse and Police Officer Tanesha Facey, NCOs from the 81st Precinct, making the rounds. 38 BROOKLYN NORTH

“Our neighborhood coordination officers (NCOs) and sector officers NEIGHBORHOOD POLICING are working diligently to show COMMANDS the people in their sectors that they can trust the NYPD,” said Inspector Peter Simonetti, PBBN’s operations commander, who supports Assistant Chief Maddrey in overseeing neighborhood policing in the borough. “Our officers are following up on investigations concerning violence, and there’s a new level of cooperation from the community.” 77TH PRECINCT

“ Like the neighborhoods he 77th Precinct lies along public housing developments we serve, the NYPD the southern border of the that are patrolled by the officers reflects diversity, and Patrol Borough Brooklyn from PSA 2. North, encompassing while race and ethnicity Prospect Heights and the The community in the 77th can be a catalyst for Tnorthern portion of Crown Precinct is predominately African- conflict, our cops come Heights. The community is both American and West Indian, and the in all sizes, shapes, residential and commercial, with area is known for the West Indian genders, ethnicities, apartment complexes and multiple Day Parade, which draws over 3.5 and orientations. Having family homes, as well as eight million people each summer. The commercial districts comprising precinct is also home to a Hasidic them on the ground bars, banks, restaurants, and Jewish community, and has seen and really getting to shopping plazas. The Brooklyn an influx of non-Hasidic white know the people in Children’s Museum and Brower inhabitants in recent years. the neighborhoods is a Park call the precinct home, as do positive reminder that the Weeksville Heritage Center “Like the neighborhoods we serve, we can all work together, and St. John’s Recreation Center. the NYPD reflects diversity,” said The precinct also contains two Captain Isa Abbassi, commanding that we can all get along.”

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Police Officers Ruben Marte, Keicho Phillips, and Edwin Garcia inside the 77th Precinct’s NCO office. 40 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO)

officer of the 77th Precinct. “And while race and ethnicity can be a catalyst for conflict, our cops “Neighborhood come in all sizes, shapes, genders, “Having officers on patrol in ethnicities, and orientations. the same sectors every day policing is effective Having them on the ground and has contributed greatly to the from a community really getting to know the people progress we’ve made,” said relations perspective, in the neighborhoods is a positive Sergeant Anthony Bertram, the reminder that we can all work but also from a precinct’s supervising NCO crime-fighting together, that we can all get along.” sergeant. “Neighborhood policing is effective from a perspective. Keeping the peace comes in many Working in the same forms too, from easing social community relations perspective, transitions to combating index but also from a crime-fighting neighborhood every crimes. Since the 77th Precinct’s perspective. Working in the same day, you get to know adoption of neighborhood policing neighborhood every day, you get the ins and outs.” in January 2016, the precinct to know the ins and outs.” has seen decreases in murders, sergeant anthony bertram, robberies, burglaries, nco supervisor and auto theft. for the 77th precinct Police Officers Keicho Phillips and Michael Mundy, patrolling SECTOR BOY the 77th Precinct’s Sector Boy.

“This arrest shows the or Police Officer Robert a sense of responsibility for the change in the NYPD and, Brower, who is a sector officer sector among the sector officers, more so, in New York City. in Sector Boy, the sector is and ensures familiarity with their his home away from home. surroundings, including people Arresting those teens He is an active part of the and sector-specific problems. was important to the Fcommunity there and takes community. We simply responsibility for the safety of its Officer Brower was quick to cannot have people afraid inhabitants. Under neighborhood respond to a radio call about a victim who had been brutally to go to work, to go food policing, NCOs and sector officers maintain “sector integrity,” attacked while delivering food shopping, to walk down which means they don’t leave the for a local Chinese restaurant. the street, for fear of confines of their sectors, except Two teenage boys had attempted being robbed, or worse, in emergencies. This cultivates to rob him, and struck him and attacked like this. This arrest was made possible because Officer Brower knew his environment by heart.”

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42 his motorized scooter repeatedly with a metal pipe when he refused to turn over his cash. Officer Brower obtained descriptions of the attackers and began canvassing the surrounding area. As a sector officer, Officer Brower is familiar with locations that troubled teenagers frequent and knew exactly where to go. He apprehended two teens fitting the exact descriptions given by the victim, who later positively identified both suspects. “This arrest shows the change in the NYPD and, more so, in New York City,” said Captain Abbassi. “Arresting those teens was important to the community. We Police Officer Robert Brower, a sector officer from the 77th Precinct’s Sector Boy, recently put simply cannot have people afraid to his knowledge of his sector to good use. go to work, to go food shopping, to walk down the street, for fear of being robbed, or worse, attacked like this. This arrest was made possible because Officer Brower knew his environment by heart.”

Familiarity

Knowing your surroundings as a cop is key. Prior to the institution of neighborhood policing, officers answered 9-1-1 calls throughout their tours and were often sent to locations scattered across the precinct. Now, sticking to the same sectors, NCOs and sector officers are familiar with a neighborhood physically and socially—who lives there, what the problems are, who the perpetrators are, and who the department’s friends and advocates are.

“The benefit of officers working in the same neighborhoods every day and getting to know their sectors better is that the community is becoming more familiar with the cops as well,” said James Caldwell, 77th Precinct community council president. QUEENS SOUTH

atrol Borough Queens “I think bringing neighborhood “We have our NCO commands South (PBQS) is largely policing to the Rockaways was a prepare weekly reports for us to residential, thick with great idea,” said Assistant Chief learn how well the officers are one- and two-story homes David Barrere, commanding performing,” adds Inspector Peter and apartment complexes. It officer of PBQS. “These were Loehle, the PBQS adjutant. “We P is also home to the John F. some of the communities that follow up with monthly meetings Kennedy International Airport and got hit the hardest by Sandy. with all of the NCO sergeants. St. John’s University, in addition to They were, and in some ways So far, this system is paying a wide range of small businesses, still are, recovering, and the idea dividends, both in community from family-owned hardware stores of having a stronger connection connection and crime fighting.” 103 and bustling laundromats to corner to neighborhood cops—to the store bodegas. Nassau County people who you’d be calling borders the borough to the east, and during an event like Sandy—I ocean air blows in off the Atlantic think these residents to the south. are very receptive to that idea.” 113 PBQS is one of the more diverse patrol boroughs, as almost every ethnicity has a part of the borough to call its own. A large portion of the population is African-American, but there are also Central American and South American communities in areas like Ozone Park, and Eastern Asian communities in areas like Fresh Meadows. The city’s largest populations of Indian immigrants reside in Bellerose, Ozone Park, and Woodhaven. Two Queens South precincts, the 101 100th and the 101st, both home to Rockaway Beach Communities, 100 were among the first four precincts to launch neighborhood policing, and it has since expanded to the 103rd and the 113th Precincts.

NCO Sergeant James Bigg, alongside two of his 100th Precinct NCOs, Police Officer Ismael Remigio and Detective Paul Candela. 44 103

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“If you have all of a he 101st Precinct, located Whether it’s tackling increased sector’s NCOs, the at the eastern end of the criminal activity on the beach sector’s housing NCOs, Rockaway Peninsula, covers during the summer months, the area between Beach helping to keep the peace in local and the sector officers 59th Street and the Nassau housing developments, or steering attend a community TExpressway, encompassing troubled youth toward the right event like a basketball two and half square miles and side of the law, the precinct’s game, that’s six or seven an extensive Atlantic Ocean neighborhood coordination police officers that these beachfront and park area. The officers and sector officers are community is primarily residential, always tuned into the goings-on of kids would have never with one- and two-family homes their command. met before. So the next and two major ocean-front time they're patrolling apartment complexes. There are “If you have all of a sector’s NCOs, in a development, they four public housing developments the sector’s housing NCOs, and the sector officers attend a may see a kid they patrolled by 101st Precinct officers; six nursing homes; and five health- community event like a basketball played basketball with. It related facilities. game, that’s six or seven police completely de-escalates officers that these kids would have the situation if it’s somebody you know.”

deputy inspector justin lenz, commanding officer of the 101st precinct

Sharing a smile with a community member is not uncommon for 101st Precinct NCOs, Police Officers Beata Lesniewski and Jamaal Arthur. 46 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO) never met before,” said Deputy Inspector Justin Lenz, the commanding officer of 101st ” Now, because of Precinct. “So the next time they're neighborhood policing, patrolling in a development, “I’m in my twenty-fifth year on they may see a kid they played the job, and I’ve worked at the we’ve been bonding basketball with. It completely 101st Precinct for five of them,” with these people on de-escalates the situation if it’s said Sergeant Robert Garrity, the a one-on-one basis somebody you know.” precinct’s NCO sergeant. “In and working together. all my years, I had never seen a 101st Precinct NCOs and sector community more disconnected People are showing officers know who the key criminal from the police. You would go to up to these meetings players in their sectors are, where community meetings, and people to share stories they’re likely to find them, and would complain about problems about positive police just how to bring them in. Much never being solved. Now, because interactions and to of this information is coming of neighborhood policing, we’ve directly from stronger lines of been bonding with these people on thank us. That’s new, communication with community a one-on-one basis and working and it’s amazing.” members, which is particularly together. People are showing up sergeant robert garrity, notable in a community that, to these meetings to share stories nco supervisor for historically, has not been fond of about positive police interactions the 101st precinct the police. and to thank us. That’s new, and it’s amazing.” 101st Precinct housing NCOs, Police Officers Glenn Ziminski and Anthony Parrinello, walking toward SECTOR DAVID sector David’s Edgemere Houses.

“This may have been one he 101st Precinct has Police Officers Glenn Ziminski small victory in a larger four public housing and Anthony Parrinello are battle, but think of the developments. There assigned as Housing NCOs and is no Housing Bureau are responsible for the Edgemere 87 people that could police service area in the Houses in sector David. In have been cheated by TRockaways, so the 101st addition to performing interior those fraudulent credit Precinct assigns a portion of its patrols and rooftop inspections, cards. That’s one less approximately 200 officers to these cops make an effort to get credit card embosser patrol in all four developments. to know the people who live in The precinct also has its own the buildings. When Officers in the hands of people housing NCOs. Ziminski and Parrinello learned who shouldn’t have it, and more importantly, one less gun on the street. Successes like this one are helping the community here to see that we’re all on the same side.”

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48 about a fraudulent credit card ring operating in the Edgemere Houses, they obtained and executed a search warrant at the apartment in question. The officers took three men into custody and recovered a loaded .45 caliber Ruger semi- automatic handgun, 18 rounds of loose ammunition, a credit card embosser, two laptops, 87 fraudulent credit cards, and some marijuana. This kind of police work is exactly what the local Far Rockaway community had been clamoring for. “This may have been one small victory in a larger battle, but think Police Officers Glenn Ziminski and of the 87 people that could have Anthony Parrinello talk shop with staff been cheated by those fraudulent at the Edgemere Community Center. credit cards,” said Deputy Inspector Justin Lenz. “That’s one less credit card embosser in the hands of people who shouldn’t have it, and more importantly, one less gun on the street. Successes like this one are helping the community here to see that we’re all on the same side.”

Productivity

Neighborhood coordination officers and sector officers are more than just community cops. They work to strengthen community ties, but they are also seasoned crime fighters, capable of producing results. The bonds they forge with people lead to valuable information and make the streets safer, drawing the department closer to the communities it serves.

“Neighborhood policing works,” said Manuel Fiallo, family and community engagement specialist for the Beach 41st Street Houses. “It’s about producing results. It’s about repairing their relationship with the community, and it’s about keeping us safe; and they’re making a lot of progress on all fronts.” QUEENS NORTH

atrol Borough Queens Filipino population in the city policing has also been introduced North (PBQN) borders lives to the south in Forest in the 114 Precinct and the the East River with the Hills. There are prominent Housing Bureau’s Police Service communities of Long Island East Asian communities, with Area 9, which patrols housing City, Ravenwood, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese developments within PBQN. P Astoria, also encompassing citizens gravitating to areas like Roosevelt Island and Rikers Island. Flushing. Much of the borough’s “Neighborhood policing is about The patrol borough rolls eastward population is of European descent, getting to know everyone,” said toward Nassau County through with Italian, Irish, and Polish Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes, Jackson Heights, with Elmhurst, communities in areas like Maspeth; commanding officer of PBQN. Flushing, and Annandale to the Hispanic and Latino residents “It’s about people getting to know north, and Woodside, Ridgewood, reside in Ridgewood; and smaller the officers, and the officers getting Maspeth, and Forest Hills to groups of African-Americans live in to know the people––all the people the south. portions of the borough as well. in each neighborhood and in each 109 sector. I came on as the C.O. LaGuardia Airport is in East PBQN’s 109th Precinct adopted of Queens North just as it was 114 Elmhurst, the New York Mets neighborhood policing in April gaining traction, and I intend to play at Citi Field, and the Arthur 2016, the first Queens North make it as successful here as it has Ashe Stadium hosts the tennis precinct to do so. Neighborhood been in other areas of the city.” U.S. Open at the end of summer each year. The patrol borough features the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum, the Queens Botanical Garden, and an abundance of parkland. People from across the globe have come to northern Queens, one of the more diverse patrol boroughs in the city. Central and South Americans have settled in and around areas like Jackson Heights, with the largest number of Mexican immigrants in the city calling Corona home. Indian and Pakistani families have moved into neighborhoods like Rego Park, while the largest Sergeant Brian Andruszkiewicz addresses his 114th Precinct NCOs at roll call. 50 QUEENS NORTH

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“It was an honor to be BQN’s 109th Precinct Because of the sheer size of the the first Queens North encompasses neighborhoods command and the number of command to adopt in the north like neighborhoods, the 109th Precinct Whitestone, Bay Terrace, is a tapestry of diversity: a rapidly neighborhood policing. and College Point––where growing population of Asian- To be on the ground P the NYPD’s new state- Americans in Flushing, with its own floor, so to speak, is of-the-art Police Academy is Chinatown and Koreatown sections; exciting and extremely located––and neighborhoods a Hispanic and Latino majority in rewarding. We’ve been further south like Mitchell- College Point; and smaller sections Linden, Flushing, and Murray of people of Italian, Greek, Russian, receiving feedback Hill. The precinct is home to the Irish, Jewish, African-American, about neighborhood Queens Botanical Garden, 42 Pakistani, Afghan, Bangladeshi, and policing from the people parks, and several golf courses. even Native American ancestry. we serve, and it’s been There is a commercial district that “It was an honor to be the first resoundingly positive.” serves as a financial center with 36 banks and a variety of shops Queens North command to deputy inspector catering to the diverse ethnicities. adopt neighborhood policing,” judith harrison, said Deputy Inspector Judith commanding officer of the 109th precinct

109th Precinct NCO, Police Officer Colleen Quinn, catches up with Stella Chan, Director of Community Relations for New York City Council Member Peter Koo. 52 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO)

Harrison, commanding officer of the 109th Precinct. “To be on the ground floor, so to speak, is exciting and extremely rewarding. We’ve been receiving feedback about neighborhood policing “ What’s immediately striking about from the people we serve, and it’s neighborhood policing is the cohesion. been resoundingly positive.” It’s like everything’s already been “What’s immediately striking thought out. You have all the wheels in about neighborhood policing is motion and all the bases are covered. the cohesion,” adds Sergeant Jason It really is an efficient way to police.” Pilla, the precinct’s NCO sergeant. “It’s like everything’s already been sergeant jason pilla, thought out. You have all the nco supervisor for the 109th precinct wheels in motion and all the bases are covered. It really is an efficient way to police.” Police Officer Wilkania Columna, a sector officer from the 109th SECTOR ADAM Precinct’s sector Adam.

“This is exactly what’s recurring problem in officer in sector Adam, whose going on in our sectors the 109th Precinct is tour fell within the hours when every day and in sectors theft from cars, so when the break-ins were occurring. Police Officer Stephanie During her next tour, Officer across the city every Stewart, a sector Columna was looking for signs day. The open exchange AAdam neighborhood of Officer Stewart’s pattern, among NCOs and sector coordination officer (NCO), when she observed a male exiting officers is stopping crime identified a trend in car breaks, the passenger side of a parked dead in its tracks. In she knew it had to be dealt with vehicle. When she investigated swiftly. She relayed information and questioned the subject, she this case, two officers about the pattern to Police Officer determined that he was not the from different tours Wilkania Columna, a sector owner of the vehicle and did not took down a criminal who was affecting their sector, because they were tapped into their surroundings and communicating with each other. That’s what neighborhood policing is all about— communication.”

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54 have permission to be inside. The resulting arrest closed out this particular theft-from-autos pattern. “This is exactly what’s going on in our sectors every day and in sectors across the city every day,” said Deputy Inspector Harrison. “The open exchange among NCOs and sector officers is stopping crime dead in its tracks. In this case, two officers from different tours took down a criminal who was affecting their sector, because they were tapped into their surroundings and communicating with each other. That’s what neighborhood policing is all about—communication.”

Police Officer Stephanie Stewart, an NCO assigned to the 109th Precinct’s sector Adam, utilizing the Predictive Mode in the Domain Awareness System.

Unity

One of the most remarkable aspects of neighborhood policing is the cohesion of various moving parts. NCOs identify crime patterns and other problems, which they sometimes rectify themselves, but just as often, they share intel about conditions with sector cops. Similarly, the sector officers can devote about a third of their tours away from the radio to engage in community interaction, targeted police activity, and follow-up engagements, thanks to support from response car officers.

“It’s amazing how fluidly these officers support each other,” said Stella Chan, director of community relations for New York City Council Member Peter Koo. “This level of engagement and communication makes for a seamless team of officers in each neighborhood, and ultimately, for tighter-knit, better- cared-for neighborhoods.” STATEN ISLAND

taten Island is located half settled in neighborhoods like NCO is a multi-faceted position,” an hour from Manhattan, South Beach. There are significant said Assistant Chief Edward across the New York Bay African-American communities Delatorre, commanding officer on the Staten Island Ferry, in areas like Arlington, and the of PBSI. “Anything can go wrong and is separated from New island is also home to one of the at any time, and it’s their job to SJersey by the Arthur Kill and largest Sri Lankan communities come up with the solutions to the Kill Van Kull waterways. The outside of Sri Lanka itself, in the problems on the fly––to use their know-how to keep their sectors borough is completely surrounded portion of Tompkinsville known by water, so cars can travel there safe, while getting to know and as “Little Sri Lanka.” only by bridge: the Verrazano- befriend the community.” Narrows Bridge from Brooklyn The NYPD brought and the Outerbridge Crossing, Assistant Chief Delatorre and his neighborhood policing to staff hold meetings with Deputy the Goethals Bridge, and the Staten Island’s 120th Precinct Bayonne Bridge from New Jersey. Inspector Robert Bocchino, in December 2015. Unlike the other boroughs, Patrol commanding officer of the 120th Precinct, and his NCOs, where Borough Staten Island (PBSI) “I encourage and expect the is not served by underground they explain their progress and NCOs from the 120th Precinct persistent issues. subway lines, but by a single, to multi-task, because being an above-ground train called the Staten Island Railway. The island contains thousands of acres of federal, state, and local parkland, in addition to hundreds of acres of private wooded areas. It is split into four precincts. While most of the city’s boroughs are marked by commercial and industrial development and looming apartment structures, PBSI is primarily a residential suburb, its sidewalks lined with the stoops of two-level homes. Staten Island’s population is predominantly white. A large number of Italian-Americans live in areas like Annadale, and people of Eastern European descent have Assistant Chief Edward Delatorre holds a CompStat- inspired meeting with Deputy Inspector Robert Bocchino and the NCOs from the 120th Precinct. 56 STATEN ISLAND

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“The great thing about taten Island’s 120th Precinct, prescription pain pills like neighborhood policing situated in the northeast OxyContin and Percocet, and a is that reinforcing corner of the island, is a steep rise in overdose deaths. transportation hub that community relations includes the Staten Island “The great thing about and fighting crime are SFerry’s terminal, the neighborhood policing is that not mutually exclusive. terminus of the Staten Island reinforcing community relations Getting to know the Railway, and the Staten Island and fighting crime are not mutually exclusive,” said Deputy people in your sector Expressway, which forms the precinct’s southern border and Inspector Robert Bocchino, means getting to know leads to the Verrazano-Narrows commanding officer of the the old woman on the Bridge to Brooklyn. 120th Precinct. “Getting to corner, and it also means know the people in your sector getting to know the guy Like the rest of the borough, the means getting to know the old precinct is experiencing the shocks woman on the corner, and it also dealing drugs in the of a severe opioid epidemic, means getting to know the guy alley, and what makes the toxic spread of heroin and dealing drugs in the alley, and each of them tick. The community helps lead us to criminal activity because they really want to weed out the seedy and criminal elements where they live.”

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Detective Joseph Arnone and Police Officer Stephen Mazzaro, NCOs from the 120th Precinct, attend a local community meeting. 58 Neighborhood Coordination Officers (NCO)

what makes each of them tick. The community helps lead us to criminal activity because they really want to weed out the seedy and criminal elements where they live.” “Our NCOs try to meet everyone in The 120th Precinct has 16 their sectors or in their developments. NCOs: eight on patrol in their respective sectors and eight As NCOs, they learn how to tell the working exclusively in the housing good guys from the bad guys, by developments within the precinct’s getting to know both groups, rather confines. Leading the group is than just the bad guys.” Sergeant John Borruso. sergeant john borruso, “Our NCOs try to meet everyone nco supervisor for the 120th precinct in their sectors or in their developments,” said Sergeant Borruso. “As NCOs, they learn how to tell the good guys from the bad guys, by getting to know both groups, rather than just the bad guys.” Police Officers Mary Gillespie and Jessi D’Ambrosio, 120th Precinct housing NCOs, SECTOR BOY en route to the development they patrol.

“Sector Boy’s NCOs ector Boy, in the precinct’s power to keep the sector and its are as much a part of northeastern quadrant, is neighborhoods from succumbing its community as the the borough’s transportation to the devastating drugs. nucleus. It includes the ferry, people they serve there. train, and bus terminals, In addition to keeping their ears With the help of other Sand is probably the most to the ground for any signs of community agencies, heavily trafficked sector on the illegal drug use and sales, sector they’ve launched a island. Staten Island is struggling Boy NCOs, Detective Joseph preemptive strike on with cases of heroin and opioid Arnone and Police Officer addiction and overdose, and sector heroin, and as a result, Stephen Mazzaro, have been Boy’s officers are working to stave trained in the use of Naloxone, a their community is still off the epidemic. The sector’s medication that can be insufflated thriving in that regard.” NCOs are doing everything in their into the nostrils of overdose deputy inspector robert bocchino, commanding officer of the 120th precinct

60 victims to block the effects of heroin or opioids, essentially bringing the subjects “back to life” long enough to transport them to a medical care facility. The officers carry Naloxone at all times and are also familiar with various treatment and support resources to help people struggling with addiction, including rehabilitation centers, narcotics anonymous meetings, and locations where addicts or concerned family Police Officer Mary members can procure Naloxone Gillespie demonstrates the and be trained in its application. application of Naloxone. Richmond Terrace, the sector’s housing development, has two NCOs of its own, Police Officers Mary Gillespie and Jessi D’Ambrosio. They are trained in Houses, along with most of Sector help of other community agencies, Naloxone application and attend Boy, have had some success in they’ve launched a preemptive community meetings regularly keeping the opioid epidemic at bay. strike on heroin, and as a result, to help residents understand the their community is still thriving use of the medication and the “Sector Boy’s NCOs are as much a in that regard.” navigation of other resources part of its community as the people regarding drug addiction. As a they serve there,” said Deputy result, the Richmond Terrace Inspector Bocchino. “With the

Community

The cornerstone of neighborhood policing is rebuilding the bridge between cops and the community. Giving cops time to connect with the people they serve—and encouraging it—nurtures a mutual respect, and ultimately promotes the idea of a shared responsibility for keeping New York City neighborhoods safe.

“This is a revolutionary approach to policing,” said Ms. Gloria Phillips, corresponding secretary for the Richmond Terrace Tenants' Association. “It’s really not such a far-fetched idea to think that we could have officers policing neighborhoods with the help of a very involved community. In fact, it’s already begun.” Police Officers Jose Genao and Alan Hassel, NCOs WHAT'S NEXT from the 33rd Precinct.

nder the direction of In February, neighborhood people you’re sworn to serve. One Chief of Patrol Terence policing will continue its rollout day, you’re an NCO—down the Monahan and Assistant to the 10th Precinct in Manhattan line, you’ll be better equipped to Chief Rodney Harrison, South, the 30th Precinct in Patrol go to the Detective Squad, Vice the executive officer of the Borough Manhattan North, Enforcement, or Special Victims.” UPatrol Services Bureau, the 90th Precinct in Patrol neighborhood policing will Borough Brooklyn North, and NCOs are given extensive training continue its expansion in 2017. the 122nd Precinct on Staten in a variety of areas, including Chief Monahan, who was Island. In April, the 25th Precinct the Enterprise Case Management appointed Chief of Patrol in in Manhattan North, the 94th System, the detectives’ criminal September 2016, worked closely Precinct in Brooklyn North, the investigation course, and dispute with Police Commissioner James 76th Precinct in Brooklyn South, mediation. In the coming year, O’Neill in the overall design of and the 123rd Precinct in Staten their training will be augmented neighborhood policing, so he is Island will join the list. to include a special domestic deeply invested in its success. abuse training course, plainclothes “For the officers who are training, auto crime training, “Moving forward, this plan will becoming our NCOs, we want and crisis intervention training, continue to serve as a community- them to see this as a career- about managing people in building tool and, perhaps more building opportunity,” said emotional distress. importantly, as a crime-fighting Assistant Chief Harrison. “We tool,” said Chief Monahan. want them to see this as a step “Ultimately, that’s what this is all in the right direction, because it about—creating well-rounded is. You’re out there, learning and cops who contribute to practicing amazing new skills; a safer city.” you’re out there meeting the

“Moving forward, neighborhood policing will continue to serve as a community-building tool and, perhaps more importantly, as a crime-fighting tool. Ultimately, that’s what this is all about—creating well-rounded cops that contribute to a safer city.”

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63 A large scale Patrol Borough Manhattan North UNIFIED INVESTIGATIONS gang takedown. The Detective Bureau Builds a New Structure for Countering Crime

n March 2016, the NYPD to be the primary function of might be working on murders, made a major organizational the Detective Bureau. OCCB’s shootings, robberies, and assaults change in the way its proactive investigations focused related to narcotics traffickers and investigations are managed and on gathering the evidence to other organized groups. coordinated. The department dismantle criminal enterprises, Iabolished the Organized which were committing crimes To keep pace with an ever- Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) that often went unreported. changing criminal environment, and merged its functions into the NYPD decided to rearrange the Detective Bureau. OCCB On its own terms, OCCB was its investigative infrastructure and had been established in the a success, largely eliminating establish clear governance over early 1970s as a guard against corruption in the specialty units the deployment of investigative police corruption in the wake it managed. Over the years, resources and the coordination of of the Knapp Commission and however, the sense grew among the different specialty units. Today’s the police corruption scandals NYPD’s managers that OCCB’s criminals have their hands in of the time. The new bureau proactive investigations were too many different types of crime: was charged with managing removed from the priorities of guns, drugs, robberies, credit investigative functions that were the precincts and local detective card fraud, identity theft, human deemed vulnerable to corruption, squads who were dealing with trafficking, and prostitution, including narcotics, gambling, crime on a day-to-day basis. among others. It was necessary to prostitution, gun trafficking, OCCB’s investigations sometimes consolidate NYPD investigative and other organized criminal took too long, sometimes devoted units and squads to work activities. These functions significant resources to cases that cohesively against diversified might also be called proactive had little to do with the violence criminal enterprises. investigation functions, as and crime in the precincts, and distinct from investigations of were often poorly coordinated with reported crime, which continued Detective Bureau detectives who

64 a geographically based investigations model

What was needed was a “The OCCB structure wasn’t commands has a borough geographically based investigations needed anymore as a guard against investigative chief, who reports structure with all the investigative corruption, which is controlled in directly to Chief Boyce. Each units in each detective borough other ways,” said Robert Boyce, investigative chief is responsible reporting to an investigative NYPD Chief of Detectives. “But for the borough’s precinct chief for that borough. This chief it was essential that we establish a detective squads, homicide squad, would actively coordinate both seamless framework to deploy and night watch, narcotics, vice investigations of reported crime and direct our investigative resources. module, and gang squad; each all proactive investigations in a way Now we’ve done that, and we are works closely with the patrol that would maximize the efficiency, seeing excellent results in the first borough chief to coordinate timeliness, and, most importantly, year: a precise and targeted attack the use of these resources. The the relevance of every investigative on our most serious violent crime borough investigative chief has case to the overall mission of driving problems and our most serious the authority to deploy any and down crime. Working through the violent criminals, which we call all investigative units to particular spring and summer of 2016, the precision policing.” incidents, to combat emerging Detective Bureau stood up this new crime trends, or to help suppress architecture, which began paying With the new unified system, each violence in a geographical area. dividends almost immediately. of the eight detective borough

Detective Davey Hernandez escorts an arrested perpetrator after a major case takedown, which resulted in the arrest of 25 individuals, and the recovery of 13 guns and 3.5 kilos of heroin. 114th Precinct NCOs, Police Officers Thomas Lewandowski, Borys Bedoya, and Monique Holly, sharing intel with Detective Anthony Vignone.

unified investigations and neighborhood policing work in tandem

Unified investigations “Now we have built a structure that truly facilitates support and coordinate with the information flow. Neighborhood policing and neighborhood policing. unified investigations are starting to work hand in Neighborhood coordination hand. They are two halves of the same effort that officers (NCOs) and sector officers who patrol the precincts complement each other perfectly." are increasingly functioning as assistant chief patrick conry, preliminary investigators and executive officer detective bureau intelligence gatherers. They bring information to the precinct detective squads who, in turn, communicate with specialty and other violent criminals,” detectives, and proactive units squads and proactive units as said Assistant Chief Patrick are functioning much more as necessary. Information about Conry, the executive officer of a team, and the result is better crime is moving fluidly across the Detective Bureau. “Now we focused, more timely, and the organization. have built a structure that truly more successful investigations facilitates the information flow. and prosecutions all across the “It’s always been a challenge in Neighborhood policing and city. The mission is clear across policing—sharing information unified investigations are starting bureau lines—target violent gathered at the street level and to work hand in hand. They are criminals in the most flexible, getting it into the hands of two halves of the same effort that efficient way possible using investigators who can then build complement each other perfectly. the resources that will be the solid cases against gang members Sector officers, NCOs, squad most effective.”

66 Neighborhood policing and unified and specialty units are all subjects. The cases against most investigations intersect weekly at represented as the team coordinates of the arrestees are so strong that CompStat, the NYPD’s famed and crafts the most effective tactics the arrestees are being indicted accountability and crime strategy and operations to suppress violence prior to arrest. In the cases that sessions. The CompStat dais, and remove violent perpetrators have gone to trial, many subjects including the chief of department, from the city’s neighborhoods. received lengthy sentences for the chief of crime control strategies, their violent acts. The takedowns the chief of detectives, the chief of Cases are being closed out since March include the largest patrol, and the chief of citywide efficiently. From March through such operation in New York City operations lead the discussion December 2016, the Detective history, in which 120 subjects about how to respond to emerging Bureau has taken down more than affiliated with two separate gangs crime trends and patterns. Patrol 100 long-term cases and effected were arrested in the 47th and 49th commanders, precinct detectives, over 1,000 arrests of high-value Precincts in the Bronx.

the enterprise case management system

To facilitate the sharing of enforcement, homicide units, investigator’s data needs across the information among Detective forensic investigations, financial multiple units working under the Bureau commands, the Bureau crimes, cold cases, precinct Detective Bureau umbrella. has expanded its Enterprise detective squads, and sex crimes. Case Management System The enhanced ECMS system “The ECMS allows the agency to (ECMS). ECMS is a digital provides one centralized database, a have a single unified management resource that allows the fluid well of information from which all system for all investigations,” exchange of information, enabling investigators can draw. It allows for said Lieutenant John Schneider collaboration and coordination improved information sharing, the from the Central Investigations among a wide range of units like merging of companion cases, and Division, who developed the narcotics, vice enforcement, gang the coordination of each individual program in 2006 and has managed its evolution to this day. “Users can determine if a person was a victim, subject, or witness in a prior or an ongoing investigation. All forensic information and the results of tests are entered into the system and available for review. This guarantees that evidence presented to prosecutors, and subsequently to defense attorneys, is complete and accurate, and includes a wide array of findings that prove or disprove a person’s guilt or innocence.”

Detective Ben White accessing the Enterprise Case Management System. 67 a focus on guns

The Detective Bureau established City. This includes a particular online about their exploits. They the Gun Violence Suppression focus on the city’s 17 most violent are bringing in solid cases ending Division in January 2016. As precincts, where 66 percent of gun with significant jail time for the the unified investigations model offenders reside. targeted offenders. does on a larger scale, the Gun Violence Suppression Division Officers scour prisoner “These are very targeted brings together a variety of units, debriefings, social media posts, investigations of very violent some of which were formerly and databases for intel on the people,” said Assistant Chief part of OCCB, to focus on gun sale, possession, and use of guns James Essig, who commands the violence. The new division assigns across New York City. They draw division. “A small number of nearly 200 NYPD personnel to evidence from cell phone traces, individuals are causing most of the all aspects of gun crime, from forensic samples that tie suspects violence in our neighborhoods. gun possession cases, to firearms to guns used in shootings, We’re not casting out a net and trafficking, to the targeted electronic surveillance, and social getting 40 kids,” he said. “We’re takedowns of violent groups using networking sites like Facebook, focusing on the worst offenders— guns on the streets of New York where young criminals often brag the worst of the worst.”

“These are very targeted investigations of very violent people. A small number of individuals are causing most of the violence in our neighborhoods. We’re not casting out a net and getting 40 kids,” he said. “We’re focusing on the worst offenders—the worst of the worst.”

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A press conference highlighting a whopping 2,000 guns removed from New York City streets by the tireless work of dedicated NYPD officers. story of a gang takedown:

Gang takedowns are a significant component of how the NYPD MARCH 2015 does business today. Clearing SHOTS FIRED New York City streets of their Someone fires a gun in the 67th Precinct in Brooklyn; most violent and dangerous no one is hit. offenders leads to a tangible sense of security for neighborhood residents. This info-graphic illustrates a gang investigation 9-1-1 CALL SHOTSPOTTER from 2014 to 2016. Starting from Members of the ShotSpotter community call technology pinpoints evidence about a crew member 9-1-1. the location of the firing a gun, the case illustrates shots. the dedicated police work and SHELL EVIDENCE the large scale investigation that An Evidence Collection Team ultimately resulted in the arrests of recovers spent shell casings. 14 violent criminals in Brooklyn. INTEGRATED BALLISTIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (IBIS) The casings are taken to the Police Lab, where the Integrated Ballistic Identification System links them to previous shootings, supporting the case with hard evidence of the potential for violence. 2014 Shots-fired report SEPTEMBER 2015 Shots-fired report 2014 Shots-fired report UNIFIED INVESTIGATION Along with the connected GUN LINKED shootings, wiretaps, JULY 2015 TO PREVIOUS GUN social-media captures, and REMAINED Shots-fired SHOTS-FIRED & report A SHOOTING surveillance investigations are ACTIVE 2014 used to gather evidence. Shots-fired report OCTOBER 2015 Shooting JANUARY 2015 The investigation leads to a with a victim Shooting gang ultimately connected with a victim to 30 shootings.

JANUARY 2016 GUN RECOVERED GANG TAKEDOWN The gun that started it Police and prosecutors all, a 9mm Glock, is conduct a takedown recovered after a operation yielding 14 non-fatal shooting. arrests.

69 different paths to one goal: reduce gun violence

The Gun Violence Suppression with the intent to sell the weapons Division is bringing a renewed on the streets of Brooklyn. focus to simple gun possession cases, which sometimes were At the same time, task forces sidetracked in the court system organized by the Gun Violence in the past. The gun arrests alone Suppression Division are have little impact unless they are going after the people who use followed by successful prosecutions guns, in most instances, young and jail time, which serve as gang members enmeshed in a deterrents. To ensure that gun cases violent, retaliatory culture that are going forward, the division is is responsible for a significant assigning a detective full-time to percentage of shootings in the every gun possession case in the city. The task forces combine city, from arrest to prosecution, experienced gang, gun, and to provide prosecutors with the narcotics detectives with local evidence they need to win in court. precinct detectives and anti-crime So far, these case enhancements officers who know the turf and have resulted in an increasing the players. The combination of number of gun possession cases talents is bringing in better cases that go to court and result in jail faster. For example, building a case time for offenders. through prison phone records, video canvasses, and social media, The division also seeks to stanch a task force team arrested 33 the flow of illegal guns smuggled members of two separate gangs into the city. Its Firearms implicated in violent activities in Investigation Unit investigates the 52nd Precinct in the Bronx. local and interstate firearms traffickers. When firearms costing $300 in some of the source states can fetch $800 or more on the New York City black market, there is a powerful incentive for interstate gun trafficking. The “Crime, and particularly violent crime, will continue to Firearms Investigation Unit works decline because of these investigators and the new closely with the attorney general’s organizational structure that enables collaboration office, the FBI, and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and and success. We had a great year against violence in Firearms to share, coordinate, 2016. I believe that we will have another in 2017.” and develop intelligence and chief of detectives robert boyce investigative leads to better identify illegal gun trafficking networks. For example, after a lengthy investigation, the unit cracked the infamous Delta Air Lines gun smuggling case, in which a criminal operation smuggled more than 150 illegal firearms into New York City on commercial flights from Georgia,

70 Chief of Citywide Operations Thomas Purtell, Deputy Chief Kevin Catalina, recently retired Captain Brian Sayre, and Lieutenant Stephen Phelan address the troops before a large scale gang takedown that apprehended 103 perpetrators for conspiracy to commit murder.

The case led to their prosecution is 140 incidents and 12.3 percent of justice and public safety. Crime, for conspiracy to commit murder below the total in 2015. The and particularly violent crime, and attempted murder. percentage of shootings attributable will continue to decline because to gang violence fell to 34 percent of these investigators and the With the Detective Bureau’s unified in 2016 from 41 percent in the new organizational structure that investigations model in place and previous year. enables collaboration and success. the Gun Violence Suppression We had a great year against Division entering its second year, “The pieces are in place,” said violence in 2016. I believe that we shooting incidents have plummeted Chief of Detectives Boyce. “We will have another in 2017.” from already low levels. New York have assembled in the Detective City experienced more than 5,200 Bureau an amazing amount of shootings back in 1993, the first investigative experience and a year for which shootings were great group of talented detectives, tracked separately from other felony including those who have come assaults. In 2016, the city recorded over from OCCB. These are the lowest number of shootings on focused and diligent professionals, record, at 998 shootings, which who are passionate in the pursuit

71 TECHNOLOGY One of the NYPD's new tablets. The NYPD Continues to Lead in Tech Integration

n its ongoing efforts to protect In the past three years, the crime report, with information the people of New York City, NYPD Information Technology about crime and enforcement the NYPD is continuously Bureau (ITB) has been rebuilding activity in every precinct. Also integrating leading edge the department’s technology online for the first time are the technology into police networks, including a new phone NYPD’s vehicle accident reports, Ioperations. The department system, a new radio system, and a which used to be available only at is known the world over for fiber optic network connecting all precinct facilities. revolutionizing policing with NYPD facilities. In effect, NYPD the institution of CompStat, is becoming its own telco carrier, “We are building out a reliable, its weekly crime-fighting and the third largest such network secure, high-bandwidth, redundant accountability sessions, which are in the city and the only one not tech infrastructure, and we are fueled by continually evolving owned by a telephone company. developing an extensive suite electronic mapping and data- of applications to go with that display technology. In 2016, ITB put the finishing infrastructure,” said Deputy touches on a new datacenter in Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who Working with Microsoft in Brooklyn and brought the new manages the NYPD Information response to the attacks of Public Safety Answering Center Technology Bureau. “Whether it’s September 11th, the NYPD also (PSAC 2) online in the Bronx, crime-fighting and communication developed the Domain Awareness providing a second primary technologies and software or System (DAS) which pools streams call answering center and full just the kind of management of data from live closed-circuit redundancy in event that either applications and tools needed to television feeds, 9-1-1 calls, license center is disabled. ITB also run a large police organization, plate readers, environmental expanded the NYPD’s cloud we are building it here.” sensors, mapped crime patterns, utilization, ensuring greater and other sources. A formidable geographical diversity for NYPD deterrent to terrorist acts, DAS is data storage. In the interest of one of the world’s premier systems opening NYPD data to the public, for monitoring and protecting a ITB developed CompStat 2.0, a dense urban environment. public version of the CompStat

72 smart phones and neighborhood policing

Perhaps most notable of all, ITB has decentralized police communications by equipping all 35,000 officers with smartphones and 2,500 patrol vehicles with tablets. These instruments not 911 See real-time 911 data, SEARCH only provide officers with direct often faster than radio Run names, license lines of contact—by phone or dispatch. See the full plates, phone report, prepared by the numbers, locations, email—to the communities they operator, as well as a :-) etc. Access to the history of previous 911 entire NYPD and serve, but also allow them access calls at the location, NYSPIN database. any shots fi red in the AT&T Messaging Social Media to a variety of highly useful data area, and wanted tools while in the field and individuals associated on-the-go. with the address.

With their department phones, FORMS officers can now access real-time Prepare and transmit CRIME injury/illness reports, 9-1-1 data, including history of automobile accident INFORMATION reports, use of force previous emergency calls made CENTER reports, complaint reports, arrest from the same location and any Check warrants, wanted paperwork, and persons, missing more—all in the fi eld. wanted individuals associated persons, and all Crime with the address. Often, they are Stoppers data. receiving the 9-1-1 jobs faster on the phones than the jobs can MESSAGING be dispatched by radio. Officers Send blast emails to specifi ed audiences, TRANSLATOR also have full access to the NYPD including the entire Translate 50 of department, all members NYPD Portal Lumia Camera New York City’s Crime Information Center, where of any given command, most prevalent foreign and all phones within a they can check warrants, search languages, whether given area. for information about wanted spoken or written. or missing persons, and view all Crime Stoppers information, only a click away. Using a phone application called Translator, officers can translate 50 of New York City’s most prevalent foreign languages, whether spoken or written. The city is a vast melting pot, and Translator provides a policing, at least 12 officers share these officers, who all have vested much needed tool to officers responsibility for each sector interest in their shared sectors, working in some of the most within a precinct: five two-officer can be in continual contact. Their diverse neighborhoods in teams working each of the three work as a crime fighting and the nation. daily shifts with coverage for problem-solving team is greatly days off, and two neighborhood facilitated by regular email and The phones support neighborhood coordinating officers. In the past, phone communication among all policing by making officers officers tended to focus only 12 team members. more accessible to the public, on their own shifts and could and also by enabling more not readily communicate with effective communication and officers on other shifts, especially collaboration among the cops since most officers did not have themselves. Under neighborhood email addresses or phones. Now

73 shotspotter changes the landscape for violent gun offenders

A recent crime-fighting initiative triangulate the location of the explosive noises down to the is the implementation of shots and send data and audio to millisecond. The sensors contain ShotSpotter, a technology that ITB’s Domain Awareness System GPS chips that provide precise detects and identifies the locations (DAS). The Chief of Department’s information regarding the locations of gunshots. The NYPD launched Operations Unit dispatches of possible gunshots. a pilot program in 2015, deploying ShotSpotter alerts to patrol units ShotSpotter in several precincts in in the field. ShotSpotter Technology, Inc. the Bronx and Brooklyn that were provides a monitoring review experiencing high levels of violence ShotSpotter technology is built in service—24 hours a day, seven and gun crime. three-square-mile increments, with days a week—to which all possible each square mile containing about gunshot recordings are sent and The technology identifies and 60 sensors. Each sensor functions, where they are reviewed by trained analyzes the sound of gunshots essentially, as a computer, using audio experts, capable, in some using tiny, strategically-placed microphones that ignore ambient cases, of determining the number of sensors that immediately noise, and time stamp loud, shooters and types of firearms. These

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74 CompStat, the NYPD's weekly crime-fighting and internal accountability sessions, fueled by constantly evolving electronic mapping and data-display technology.

“Whether it’s crime-fighting and communication technologies and software or just the kind of management applications and tools needed to run a large police organization, we are building it here.”

jessica tisch, deputy commissioner of information technology

experts relay all vital information fired to suppress further violence, square miles of the New York City back to the department and to to gather ballistic evidence, to neighborhoods with ShotSpotter officers on patrol. locate relevant surveillance video, sensors. The neighborhoods and to canvass the neighborhood covered, within each of the five Between 75 and 80 percent of for people who may have seen geographical boroughs, are some shots-fired incidents in New York or heard something. Any of this of those most affected by gun City go unreported, so ShotSpotter evidence might prove decisive when violence, based on analysis of is adding another critical investigators are trying to build a shooting and 9-1-1 data. component to the ongoing effort case against gang members or other to control gun crime. Shots fired violent criminals in the area. are often indicators that shootings, and possibly homicides, will follow The department’s deployment in the same general locations. of the ShotSpotter technology ShotSpotter alerts allow officers to is currently entering its third move swiftly to the scenes of shots phase, and will soon cover 60

75 Police Officers Sidique Marshall and Gerald Jeanbaptiste, members of the Counterterrorism Bureau’s COUNTERTERRORISM Critical Response Command. The NYPD’s World-Class Counterterror Capabilities

Internationally Stationed NYPD Officers n September 17, 2016, New Yorkers were forcefully reminded of the ever- London, England United Kingdom Agency: New Scotland Yard looming threat of a terror Montreal, Canada Post Established: 2002 Agency: Sûreté Du Québec Agency: London Metropolitan Police attack when a makeshift Post Established: 2015 United Kingdom The Hague, Netherlands bomb, planted by a lone Agency: London SO15 Agency: Europol O Post Established: 2016 wolf, exploded in the Chelsea Paris, France Bulgaria section of Manhattan and another Agency: Paris Prefecture Agency: Minister of Interior Post Established: 2006 unexploded device was found just Amman, Jordan Agency: Jordanian Public Security Directorate blocks away. Police Commissioner Post Established: 2005 Lyon, France James O’Neill and the NYPD, Toronto, Canada Agency: Interpol General Secretariat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Interpol at the UN Agency: Toronto Police Service Post Established: 2003 Agency: Abu Dhabi GHQ Agency: United Nations with the aid of federal, state, and Post Established: 2013 Post Established: 2009 Post Established: 2016 local partners, led a collaborative response that secured the Chelsea neighborhood and apprehended Jamaica Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic the suspect within 40 hours. Agency: Jamaica Constabulary Agency: Santo Domingo Minister of Interior and Police Madrid, Spain Post Established: 2009 Agency: Madrid Municipal Police Headquarters Qatar Philippines Agency: Philippine National Police Post Established: 2006 Agency: General Department of Public Security This unsuccessful attempt stirred memories for most New Yorkers, Turkey Kfar Saba, Israel Singapore, Singapore Agency: Singapore Police Force Headquarters occurring as it did just a week Agency: Istanbul Provincial Police Department Agency: Israeli National Police Post Established: 2003 after the 15th anniversary of Post Established: 2003 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September has forged an unprecedented 11, 2001. When that attack municipal counterterror capacity, occurred, the NYPD pledged including a Counterterrorism Bureau, a revitalized Intelligence Uruguay Sydney, Australia to do everything in its power to Agency: Australian Federal Police Agency: Ministry of the Interior ensure that the city would never Bureau, and increased Post Established: 2015 experience such an attack again. participation with the FBI on the In the years since, the department Joint-Terrorism Task Force.

76 overseas officers provide on-the-scene intelligence

With the help of the Police intensity, but greater frequency. “The international attacks have Foundation, the NYPD Our overseas officers have been had some alarming characteristics, Intelligence Bureau has stationed immensely valuable in assessing including the clear intention to kill Police Officers Sidique Marshall officers overseas in 20 different this new challenge. After attacks as many people as possible and a and Gerald Jeanbaptiste, members locations, including London, in locations like Mumbai, Paris, willingness to engage responding of the Counterterrorism Bureau’s Paris, Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi, and Brussels, they have evaluated police officers with heavy weapons Critical Response Command. to work closely with local law the terrorists’ methods and how and military-style tactics,” said John enforcement, gather detailed they might apply to New York Miller, the Deputy Commissioner of intelligence, and help shape City. Additionally, the NYPD has Intelligence and Counterterrorism. counterterrorism strategies here studied the domestic attacks in “The prudent course was to develop at home. The international San Bernardino and Orlando. a response capability in our city threat picture has changed, from that could meet such attacks swiftly Al Qaeda’s model of massively One conclusion drawn from the and with overwhelming force. We destructive attacks directly department’s ongoing research was can now bring hundreds of well- controlled from afar to the ISIS the need for a swifter and more trained, well-armed officers to scenes model of inspired, enabled, potent response capability in the anywhere in the city to neutralize the or directed attacks of lesser event of an attack. threat and minimize the damage.”

London, England United Kingdom Agency: New Scotland Yard Montreal, Canada Post Established: 2002 Agency: Sûreté Du Québec Agency: London Metropolitan Police Post Established: 2015 United Kingdom The Hague, Netherlands Agency: London SO15 Agency: Europol Post Established: 2016 Paris, France Bulgaria Agency: Paris Prefecture Agency: Minister of Interior Post Established: 2006 Amman, Jordan Agency: Jordanian Public Security Directorate Post Established: 2005 Lyon, France Toronto, Canada Agency: Interpol General Secretariat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Interpol at the UN Agency: Toronto Police Service Post Established: 2003 Agency: Abu Dhabi GHQ Agency: United Nations Post Established: 2013 Post Established: 2009 Post Established: 2016

Jamaica Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Agency: Jamaica Constabulary Agency: Santo Domingo Minister of Interior and Police Madrid, Spain Post Established: 2009 Agency: Madrid Municipal Police Headquarters Qatar Philippines Agency: Philippine National Police Post Established: 2006 Agency: General Department of Public Security

Turkey Kfar Saba, Israel Singapore, Singapore Agency: Singapore Police Force Headquarters Agency: Istanbul Provincial Police Department Agency: Israeli National Police Post Established: 2003 Post Established: 2003

Uruguay Sydney, Australia Agency: Australian Federal Police Agency: Ministry of the Interior Post Established: 2015

77 A pair of Strategic Response Group officers, training for any and all possibilities.

three layers of response

The tip of the response spear has hand-selected and trained in citywide command comprising always been the 450 officers of the counterterrorism tactics, such as 725 officers, trained in disorder- Emergency Service Unit (ESU); the active-shooter protocols, special control and active-shooter most highly trained police officers weapons and long guns, explosive situations. SRG commands are in the world, prepared for any and trace detection, radiological and strategically placed in each of the all scenarios. These elite officers nuclear awareness, biological and five geographic boroughs, making must have at least five years on the chemical threat consciousness, and any mobilization a quick and job before applying to the team, the skills to detect an impending efficient operation. SRG’s primary and, upon acceptance, are trained attack by reading the faces and missions are disorder control rigorously for eight months— body language of potential and crime suppression in the which is longer than the initial attackers. They provide a visible precincts, but its teams are always Police Academy training. presence at iconic structures available to provide another layer and other high-profile locations of counterterror response in the Now, the NYPD’s counterterror event of an attack. response has been greatly and events throughout the city, expanded by the Critical Response serving as an active deterrent at Command (CRC) in the likely terrorist targets and a ready Counterterrorism Bureau, a team resource should an attack occur. of 520 dedicated counterterrorism officers at-the-ready, with a full The counterterrorism response is range of counterterror skills further bolstered by the Strategic and training. CRC officers are Response Group (SRG), a new

78 the bomb squad and the chelsea bombing

The NYPD also boasts officers Critical Response Command equipped to respond to the ever- who literally run into explosive deployments, secondary-device evolving threat of terrorism.” situations. The Counterterrorism sweeps conducted by the Bomb Bureau’s Bomb Squad disabled the Squad, and coordinated efforts In the event of any attack, highly improvised explosive device found with our partner agencies at the trained, well-equipped units— in Times Square in 2010 and dealt Joint-Terrorism Task Force,” ESU, CRC, SRG, and the Bomb courageously with the second said James Waters, Chief of Squad—will be swiftly deployed. device found after the 2016 the Counterterrorism Bureau. Yet, the first on scene at almost explosion in Chelsea. The squad “Additional casualties were likely any cataclysmic event, will has more than three-dozen expert avoided when Bomb Squad likely be a pair of police officers members; 16 explosive-detection personnel transported a second on patrol, another critical part canines; Andros 6A, 6B, and unexploded device in a total of the NYPD’s counterterror Wolverine robots; and three total- containment vessel to the police capability; and those officers will containment vessels to transport range at Rodman’s Neck, where undoubtedly, and unwaveringly, dangerous explosives. the pressure-cooker IED was rush in to do what they do best: rendered safe. Six days after the protect the people of this city. “In the immediate aftermath 15th anniversary of the 9/11 of the Chelsea bombing, attacks, I was filled with a sense Counterterrorism Bureau of resolve and confidence from personnel effectively responded the knowledge that no other to the blast site through organization in the world is better

”Six days after the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I was filled with a sense of resolve and confidence from the knowledge that no other organization in the world is better- equipped to respond to the ever-evolving threat of terrorism.”

james waters, chief of the counterterrorism bureau

The Bomb Squad's Andros 6A robot, an officer-operated bomb retrieval tool. Dominique Magnan, a Crime Victim Advocate from the 28th Precinct, helps a victim navigate COMMUNITY CONNECTION the criminal justice process. The NYPD Brings Assistance to Victims of Crime

n the past three years, the 4,200 young people participating. ill persons who have shown a NYPD has vastly increased The Community Affairs Bureau’s propensity for violence, with the the scope and range of its Crime Prevention Division made goal of bringing interactions with outreach to, and its interaction an intensive effort in 2016 to mentally ill subjects to the best with, the communities it alert and educate seniors about possible outcomes. Collaborative Iserves. Neighborhood policing current telephone scams, in which Policing has overseen the NYC is embedding this kind of scammers purport to be the IRS Ceasefire program in Brooklyn, community connection in patrol or legitimate collection agencies. which is currently expanding to operations, and other entities in the Community Affairs worked in the Bronx, intervening in the department have worked in other Muslim communities to build cycle of retaliatory violence among ways to connect with, and better trust and communication with young gang members. It has also serve, the neighborhoods of New New York City residents who arranged for the training of 230 York City, the faith community, have been fearful and distrustful NYPD Special Victims Division the city’s youth, crime victims, and of the police in recent years. In detectives in Forensic Experiential those dealing with mental illness cooperation with U.S. Marine Trauma Interview (FETI) and drug addiction. Corps members, Community techniques to enhance their skill Affairs distributed 35,000 toys to in serving victims of rape and The Community Affairs Bureau, inner-city youth in 2016. other sex crimes. commanded by Chief Joanne Jaffe, is the department’s Collaborative Policing, a new The Police Commissioner’s traditional liaison to communities. office at the NYPD, directed by Counsel, Edna Wells Handy, In 2016, it continued its school Deputy Commissioner Susan has led other outreach efforts, and other youth programs, Herman, has worked with the including multiple sessions in including the Police Athletic Department of Health and which Commissioner O’Neill, League, which served some Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in and Commissioner Bratton 40,000 kids, and the Law developing the concept of co- before him, have met with Enforcement Explorer program, response cars in which DOHMH representatives from a wide range a scouting-style introduction clinicians accompany police of New York City communities to police work with more than officers to calls involving mentally and groups. Counsel Handy has

80 developed the House of Worship Bureau, Counsel Handy has strength of evidence against the Security initiative that is working helped to organize post-takedown arrested parties. In most cases, with congregations across the city meetings with community the attendees at these meetings to prepare security reviews for members in the neighborhoods endorse the arrest and removal hundreds of churches, synagogues subject to the Detective Bureau of dangerous people from their and mosques. In the context of operations to address community neighborhoods. the increasing number of targeted concerns and explain the gang arrests by the Detective reasons for the operation and Dominique Magnan, a Crime Victim Advocate from the 28th Precinct, helps a victim navigate the criminal justice process.

“ We will be reaching out to people who don’t necessarily identify as victims of crime, but who have experienced violence or been victimized in other ways, including young men of color who may not see themselves as someone who would usually go to a victim services agency.”

susan herman, deputy commissioner of collaborative policing

services for victims of crime One of the more far reaching of program that has operated in a who don’t necessarily identify as the NYPD’s current community handful of precincts and in all the victims of crime, but who have efforts is the Crime Victim Housing Bureau police service experienced violence or been Assistance Program (CVAP). This areas since the mid-1980s. But victimized in other ways, including is a groundbreaking initiative, for the first time, under the new young men of color who may developed by the NYPD’s Office program, the NYPD will be not see themselves as someone of Collaborative Policing, financed providing advocates to victims who would usually go to a victim by the department, and staffed by of any kind of crime, in every services agency.” Safe Horizon, a non-profit and precinct, citywide. New York City’s largest and most comprehensive victim services “Our outreach is going to include provider. Over the next several people who haven’t always felt that years, the program will place two they were candidates for services,” victim advocates in every precinct, said Susan Herman, Deputy a domestic violence victim Commissioner of Collaborative advocate and a general crime Policing, whose office oversaw victim advocate. The program the development of the program. builds on a domestic violence “We will be reaching out to people

81 Police Commissioner James O’Neill, First Lady Chirlane McCray, and Deputy Commissioner of Collaborative Policing Susan Herman meet with Safe Horizon CEO Ariel Zwang, Associate Vice President Maureen Curtis, and Lakier Morris.

crime victims “Our goal at Safe Horizon is to help victims in their time of greatest need, delivering services that are and trauma client-centered and trauma-informed. Victims of crime will have immediate access to advocates who provide Crime can leave its victims support, advocacy, information, and links to other confused, angry, and feeling isolated. These victims frequently services, promoting victims’ safety and healing.” are unaware of the services and ariel zwang, chief executive officer of safe horizon resources available. In many cases, participating in the criminal justice system, by identifying perpetrators or giving evidence, to address a victim’s needs and delivering services that are client- is the furthest thing from their concerns, the sooner the victim centered and trauma-informed. minds after they have been can feel safe again, recover from Victims of crime will have victimized. The Crime Victims trauma, regain a sense of control, immediate access to advocates Assistance Program works to and ultimately, participate in the who provide support, advocacy, ease victims’ stress, providing criminal justice process. information, and links to other crisis intervention, referrals services, promoting victims’ safety to community-based service “Victims of crime can be deeply and healing.” programs, and advocacy to traumatized by their experiences,” support victims’ interactions with said Ariel Zwang, chief executive The Crime Victim Assistance the police and other components officer of Safe Horizon. “Our goal Program is currently up and of the criminal justice system. at Safe Horizon is to help victims running in 25 precincts in all The sooner the NYPD works in their time of greatest need, five of the geographic boroughs.

82 crime victim assistance program

47 52

34 49 46 48 33 44 42 43 32 41 28 40 25 PRECINCTS WITH THE CRIME 23 25 VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 20 CPP 109 114 MTN 111 MANHATTAN QUEENS MTS 17

108 BROOKLYN THE BRONX 9 112 104 STATEN ISLAND 103 84 102 88 79 81 113 77 78 73 75 71 72 67 69 70 68 120

121 101 100 122 60

Advocates sort through crime whether counseling for trauma, complaints each morning and providing advice about navigating reach out to victims through the legal processes of the criminal the mail and phone calls. They justice system, or aiding in address police roll calls to better the application for financial inform officers about the services compensation. By 2018, victim available and how to connect with advocates will be present in every them. Advocates adapt services precinct citywide. to each victim’s unique needs,

83 Lieutenant Mark Turner, an integral player in CIT, TRAINING addresses the classroom. New NYPD Training on Reaching and Helping People in Crisis

raining in the NYPD has to manage street encounters kits, which equip officers with been reorganized and effectively, as well as de-escalate tourniquets to render aid to revitalized in the past three conflicts and gain voluntary bleeding people until medical years. The Police Academy compliance from suspects. All of personnel arrive. As the Strategic curriculum for recruits, these new types of training are Response Group and the Critical Tdelivered in a new state-of- designed to support neighborhood Response Command were added the-art facility in College Point, policing, giving officers the skills to NYPD’s counterterrorism Queens, now places less emphasis and perspective they need to play capabilities, more than 1,300 on rote classroom learning and expanded roles as sector cops and personnel from these units have more on scenario-based training neighborhood coordination officers. been trained on the M4 rifle, that simulates actual conditions preparing them to contend with on the street. After leaving Also to support neighborhood terror or active shooter threats. the Police Academy, recruits policing, the department has now go through six months of seen the largest increase in patrol field training with experienced strength since 2001, and the officers who mentor them in Training Bureau trained nearly the fine points of police work in 2,800 recruits in 2016. There neighborhoods. Veteran officers was also specialized training for are now given recurring training, 12,000 recruit and in-service not only in firearms, but in trainees in the use of newly tactical and communication skills distributed belt-worn trauma

84 crisis intervention training

The NYPD fields well over Officers who have received this CIT was developed by NYPD 100,000 calls regarding training generally display greater experts in collaboration with emotionally disturbed individuals confidence in these situations, mental health professionals and each year, so it is critical that are better at recognizing mental researchers from local universities, its officers are equipped to illness, and engage in fewer as well as other mental health contend with these situations uses of force when dealing with community members. The and bring them to successful and subjects in mental distress. training is lecture-based, safe conclusions. In one of the and supported by interactive department’s most important “CIT policing exposes police scenarios and role-play situations. recent training initiatives, Crisis officers to the insights of mental The course is not intended to Intervention Training (CIT) is health specialists with the goal of transform officers into clinicians now being provided in a four-day reducing the risk of injury to both or social workers, but to impart class that teaches active listening mentally ill persons and the officers, a better understanding of mental skills. Officers learn how to while diverting such troubled people illnesses to help officers assist a demonstrate empathy and build to mental health treatment instead person in crisis and gain voluntary rapport with subjects, slowing of jail, whenever appropriate,” said compliance. down situations and de-escalating Deputy Commissioner of Training the subject’s negative emotions. Tracie Keesee, Ph.D.

Negotiation Stairway Model

VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE

NEGOTIATION

COMMUNICATION

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS

85 Hadley Fitzgerald, a social worker from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, demonstrates crisis intervention techniques for Police Officers Makiba Brathwaite and Shanturah Brathwaite, with the help of an actor from John Jay College posing as an emotionally disturbed person.

scenario-based training

CIT employs professional actors The instruction shows officers how “CIT can be thought of as a to put officers to the test. They to develop a sense of connection method of providing specialized portray emotionally disturbed with emotionally or mentally police response; getting skilled people, and people under the troubled people in the throes of officers to scenes where their influence of chemical substances, crisis. Officers connect to their specialized knowledge and in different stages of crisis. The subjects as fellow human beings— training can be leveraged to actors challenge officers with mothers, veterans, people who increase the chances of a peaceful various scenarios, threatening have struggled with loss. The and voluntary resolution,” said harm to themselves, the officers, training is about de-escalating Inspector Gregory Sheehan, or others, simulating the possible tense situations and finding commanding officer of the life-and-death consequences of common ground. It marks a Training Bureau’s Specialized this kind of stand off. The landmark shift in how the Training Section. officers’ responses are judged NYPD works with people at class sessions by a clinical suffering from untreated mental psychologist and the course’s health conditions. other instructors.

86 police trainees endorse the course

Patrol officers who have attended Another added, “I will be going from the 24th Precinct employed the CIT have been overwhelmingly back to my precinct and telling the skills she had learned from CIT, positive about it. Ninety-nine everyone to take this course. It is showing compassion to a suicidal percent of the officers who took very informative and shows the woman who was determined to the course would recommend it many ways to handle encounters jump to her death, effectively to fellow patrol officers. with people in crisis.” saving her life. NYPD officers are seeing these sort of success stories “This course was, by far, one of the CIT has already paid dividends in frequently in New York City, best trainings that I have received lives literally saved. Police Officer thanks to the compassion and on the job,” said one officer. “I have Christian Campoverde from the negotiation skills taught in Crisis always considered myself to be good 40th Precinct had just completed Intervention Training. at dealing with emotionally disturbed his CIT training when, while off- people, and didn’t expect to really duty, he managed to stop a man get a lot out of this course, but I was from taking his own life simply wrong. I learned so much more and by asking him if he wanted a hug. took so much from this course.” Police Officer Nina Depasquale

The new Police Academy in College Point contains realistic environments that are utilized during Crisis Intervention Training. 2016: a banner year in crime fighting

550,000 “This is what 21st century policing looks like. It’s data driven, it’s smarter, it’s more targeted.

500,000 And here is the important part: it works.” dermot shea, nypd chief of crime control strategies

450,000

2016 was a banner year for crime 2015, and 2016 accounting for fighting in New York City. Index the four lowest annual murder 400,000 crime, at 101,716 incidents, totals since 1957. There were 998 hit its lowest level since 1960, shootings, the fewest since 1993, when crime reporting was far less the first year for which shooting reliable and criminal incidents data is available, and marking the 350,000 were probably significantly first time that shootings in New undercounted. Murder, at 335 York City have fallen below 1,100 incidents, remained at the low incidents. Robbery, burglary, and auto theft each hit levels not seen 300,000 levels achieved in the past several years, with the years 2013, 2014, since the mid-1960s.

250,000

200,000

150,000

100,000

50,000

0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

OVERALL MAJOR CRIME 1990-2016 Murder, Rape, Robbery, Felony Assault, Burglary, Grand Larceny, Grand Larceny Auto

88 SHOOTINGS 1,600 Neighborhood policing and 1,400 unified investigations are driving TEN-YEAR AVERAGE 2003-2016 2003-2012 down murders and shootings 1,200 THE NEW AVERAGE even as enforcement encounters— 1,000 2013-2016 arrests, summonses, and stops—

800 have declined sharply. Compared to the ten-year-average for 2003 600 to 2012, the past four years’ 400 average is 26 percent lower for

200 shootings and 36 percent lower for murder. At the same time, 0 enforcement encounters have declined by more than one million from their ten-year highs. MURDERS 600 500 2003-2016 TEN-YEAR AVERAGE 2003-2012 400

THE NEW AVERAGE 300 2013-2016

200

100

0

1,600,000

PEACE 1,440,000

DIVIDEND 1,280,000 TERRY STOPS

2003-2016 1,120,000 Data for categories are stacked 960,000

800,000 CRIMINAL SUMMONSES

640,000

480,000

320,000 ARRESTS

160,000 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

89 BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE

the following members of the service died in the line of duty on september 11, 2001. september 11, 2001 NYPD Heroes 9/11 and Beyond t the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, relatives read the victim's names and reflected on a loss still felt today at the site of the attacks, now home to One World Trade Center, a symbol of resilience in the face of tragedy. Nearly 3,000 people in New York, Virginia, and APennsylvania lost their lives on 9/11. As the years pass, the sorrow remains, alongside the tributes. The NYPD lost 23 officers on that fateful day and an additional 119 members of the separtment have since passed away due to 9/11-related illnesses. We will never forget.

Sergeant John G. Coughlin Sergeant Michael S. Curtin Sergeant Rodney C.Gillis Emergency Service Squad 4 Emergency Service Squad 2 Emergency Service Squad 8

Sergeant Timothy A. Roy Detective Claude D Richards Detective Joseph V. Vigiano Traffic Control Division Bus Unit Bomb Squad Emergency Service Squad 2

PO John D’Allara PO Vincent G. Danz PO Jerome M. Dominguez Emergency Service Squad 2 Emergency Service Squad 3 Emergency Service Squad 3 91 the following members of the service died in the line of duty on september 11, 2001.

PO Stephen P. Driscoll PO Brian G. McDonnell PO Robert Fazio PO Ronald P. Kloepfer Emergency Service Squad 4 Emergency Service Squad 1 13th Precinct Emergency Service Squad 7

PO Thomas M. Langone PO James P. Leahy PO Brian G. McDonnell PO John W. Perry Emergency Service Squad 10 6th Precinct Emergency Service Squad 1 40th Precinct

PO Glen K. Pettit PO Moira A. Smith PO Ramon Suarez PO Paul Talty Police Academy Video Production Unit 13th Precinct Transit Bureau, District 4 Emergency Service Squad 10

PO Santos Valentin Jr. PO Walter E. Weaver Emergency Service Squad 7 Emergency Service Squad 3

92 the following members of the service died post september 11, 2001: During the rescue and recovery efforts that followed the destruction of the World Trade Center, thousands of New York City Police Department personnel worked long hours, initially with the hope of finding survivors, and later to recover their fallen comrades and others who died on 9/11. Exposed to toxic smoke and other hazards, members of the service who engaged in rescue and recovery efforts developed cancers and other fatal illnesses. Since recovery efforts began, an additional 119 members of the department have died. The number of 911-related deaths continues to climb.

Lieutenant Detective Detective Police Officer Police Officer Police Officer Robert Rice Second Grade William B. Titus Edward M. Ferraro James J. Godbee Thomas G. Brophy 4/12/2003 Thomas F. Weiner 8/24/2003 6/6/2004 12/30/2004 4/21/2005 Narcotics Borough 5/3/2003 Narcotics Borough Management Information 28 Precinct 109 Precinct Brooklyn North Medical Division Brooklyn North Systems Division

Police Officer Detective Detective Second Grade Police Officer Captain Police Officer Ronald E. Weintraub James Zadroga Sandra Adrian Angelo Peluso Edward C. Gilpin Patrice M. Ott 1/16/2005 1/5/2006 1/11/2006 5/24/2006 9/7/2006 9/8/2006 Midtown South Precinct Manhattan South Homicide Internal Affairs Bureau License Division Patrol Borough Property Clerk Manhattan South Division

Police Officer Detective First Grade Detective Police Officer Detective Second Grade Detective Daniel C. Conroy Roberto L. Rivera John T. Young Louise M. Johnston Kevin G. Hawkins Robert W. Williamson 12/3/2006 1/27/2007 2/19/2007 3/6/2007 5/7/2007 5/13/2007 Property Clerk Division Joint Terrorist Task Force 50 Precinct Detective Squad Brooklyn South Task Force Intelligence Bureau Patrol Borough Manhattan South

Police Officer Police Officer Sergeant Police Officer Sergeant Detective Madeline Carlo Robert B. Helmke Claire T. Hanrahan Frank G. Macri Michael W. Ryan William J. Holfester 7/15/2007 7/28/2007 8/28/2007 9/3/2007 11/5/2007 1/22/2008 Housing Bureau Medical Division Narcotics Borough Housing Bureau, Police Warrant Section Narcotics Borough Manhattan North Service Area #2 Manhattan North

Sergeant Detective Auto Mechanic Police Officer Police Officer Police Officer Edward D. Thompson John E. Goggin Elmis A. Fisher Allison M. Palmer Christopher S. McMurry Gary G. Mausberg 3/9/2008 5/6/2008 6/1/2008 7/28/2008 8/1/2008 10/8/2008 Intelligence Bureau 94 Precinct Detective Fleet Services Division Patrol Services Bureau 77 Precinct 73 Precinct Squad

Police Officer Inspector Sergeant Police Officer Lieutenant Lieutenant Robert Nicosia Richard D. Winter Alex W. Baez Vito S. Mauro Brian S. Mohamed Gerald Rex 10/10/2008 10/25/2008 11/22/2008 12/2/2008 3/25/2009 3/30/2009 Technical Assistance Fleet Services Division 84 Precinct 67 Precinct 20 Precinct Patrol Borough and Response Unit Manhattan South 93 Police Officer Police Officer Detective Second Grade Police Officer Inspector Detective First Grade Robert A. Zane Richard Jakubowsky Michael P. Morales Renee Dunbar Donald G. Feser Corey J. Diaz 5/12/2009 6/7/2009 6/10/2009 8/25/2009 9/12/2009 10/7/2009 Transit Bureau, Transit Borough Bronx 122 Precinct 103 Precinct Manhattan Traffic Organized Crime District 34 Task Force Detective Squad Task Force Control Bureau

Police Officer Sergeant Lieutenant S/A Police Officer Police Officer Detective Robert C. Grossman Charles J. Clark Carlos J. Ocasio Frank M. Bolusi Robert V. Oswain Joseph Seabrook 10/9/2009 11/7/2009 11/21/2009 1/12/2010 5/15/2010 5/29/2010 28 Precinct Housing Bureau, Office, Deputy 120 Precinct 47 Precinct 20 Precinct Police Service Area #8 Commissioner Training

Lieutenant Police Officer Police Officer Detective First Grade Sergeant Police Officer Special Assignment David Mahmoud Robert M. Ehmer Kevin A. Czartoryski Harold J. Smith George M. Wong Jacqueline McCarthy 11/11/2010 11/21/2010 12/5/2010 3/5/2011 3/24/2011 7/5/2010 75 Precinct 110 Precinct Office, Deputy Commissioner Narcotics Borough Headquarters Employee Relations Section Public Information Staten Island Security Unit

Police Officer Captain Detective Police Officer Sergeant Detective Second Grade Martin Tom Barry Galfano Edwin Ortiz Karen E. Barnes Jacqueline C. Schaefer Alick W. Herrmann 6/9/2011 6/26/2011 7/4/2011 8/4/2011 12/2/2011 12/23/2011 License Division Emergency Service Unit 40 Precinct Detective Squad Housing Bureau, Quality Assurance Division 100 Precinct Police Service Area #5 Detective Squad

Police Officer Police Officer Police Officer Lieutenant Sergeant Sergeant Peter O. Rodriguez Denis R. McLarney Richard G. Holland Christopher M. Pupo Michael J. McHugh Garrett S. Danza 2/12/2012 3/1/2012 3/23/2012 6/23/2012 7/3/2012 7/11/2012 Auto Crime Division Brooklyn Court Section Transit Bureau, 41 Precinct Patrol Borough Communication District 20 Manhattan South Division

Captain Police Officer Detective First Grade Detective Detective First Grade Lieutenant Dennis Morales Ronald G. Becker Jr. John F. Kristoffersen Traci L. Tack-Czajkowski Tommy L. Merriweather Steven L. Cioffi 7/27/2012 8/19/2012 4 8/25/2012 1/15/2013 1/21/2013 3/5/2013 Emergency Service Unit 2 Precinct Brooklyn North Homicide Drug Enforcement Firearms Suppression Central Park Precinct Task Force Division

Detective Police Officer Detective Second Grade Police Officer Police Officer Detective Richard H. Wentz Anthony De Jesus Carmen M. Figueroa Nicholas G. Finelli Francis T. Pitone Steven Hom 5/14/2013 5/24/2013 5/26/2013 6/8/2013 8/11/2013 10/19/2013 Gang Division 42 Precinct Major Case Squad 43 Precinct Housing Bureau, Narcotics Borough Police Service Area #8 Brooklyn South

94 Detective First Grade Police Officer Detective Police Officer Detective Second Grade Detective Joseph A. Cavitolo James M. Burke Michael R. Henry Cheryl D. Johnson Christopher Strucker Angel A. Creagh 10/25/2013 11/6/2013 11/28/2013 12/22/2013 1/3/2014 1/14/2014 Office, Deputy Commissioner Fleet Services Division Narcotics Borough 115 Precinct Intelligence Bureau Narcotics Borough Public Information Manhattan North Brooklyn South

Detective Police Officer Captain Detective Sergeant Detective Aslyn A. Beckles Perry T. Villani Ronald G. Peifer Robert A. Montanez Donald O’Leary John J. Marshall 1/18/2014 1/21/2014 3/5/2014 3/16/2014 3/26/2014 4/6/2014 Internal Affairs Bureau Property Clerk Division Patrol Services Bureau Narcotics Borough Bronx Transit Bureau, District 11 Narcotics Borough Brooklyn South

Detective First Grade Detective Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Detective John A. Russo James J. Albanese Patrick P. Murphy Paul M. Ferrara Supervisor Detective Luis G. Fernandez 7/22/2014 8/13/2014 8/20/2014 8/28/2014 Stephen P. Scalza 10/16/2014 Technical Assistance Narcotics Borough Emergency Service 110 Precinct 10/1/2014 Emergency Service and Response Unit Manhattan South Squad No.5 Asset Forfeiture Unit Squad No.6

Inspector Detective Police Officer Police Officer Captain Police Officer James Guida Charles G. Gittens Robert W. Kaminski Shaun M. Mahoney Scott V. Stelmok Otto R. Espinoza 10/31/2014 11/28/2014 12/4/2014 12/10/2014 12/29/2014 1/3/2015 Narcotics Division Intelligence Bureau Fleet Services Division 109 Precinct 103 Precinct 106 Precinct

Deputy Chief Police Officer Detective Police Officer Detective Police Officer Steven J. Bonano Peter D. Ciaccio Stuart F. Fishkin Demetrias Hopkins Michael K. Davis James A. Betso 1/17/2015 2/12/2015 5/8/2015 5/11/2015 6/1/2015 6/17/2015 Patrol Borough Medical Division Fleet Services Division Brooklyn Court Section Counterterrorsim Bureau 23 Precinct Brooklyn South

Police Officer Lieutenant Police Officer Lieutenant Detective Second Sergeant Matthew J. Gay Luis A. Lopez Alexander Figueroa Rebecca A. Buck Grade Ronald A. Richards Supervisor Detective 6/25/2015 6/26/2015 7/7/2015 7/21/2015 10/10/2015 Gerard Beyrodt Midtown North Precinct 30 Precinct Transit Bureau, District 3 Internal Affairs Bureau Bomb Squad 10/20/2015 Midtown North Precinct Detective Squad

* NYPD Official Designated 9/11 related Line of Duty Sergeant Police Officer Lieutenant Sergeant Sergeant Deaths through Louis R. Pioli Charles M. Karen Marci Simms Wayne A. Jackson Michael Galvin 10/29/2015 11/4/2015 11/5/2015 11/13/2015 11/27/2015 August 2016 61 Precinct 73 Precinct 107 Precinct Narcotics Borough Bronx Intelligence Bureau

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