Supervising Policy Counsel Jacqueline Gosdigian recently testified before the New York City Council Committee on Public Safety that “overall, the current level of stop and frisk abuses combined with a web of the NYPD’s special response teams, task forces, and use of surveillance technology represents a covert return to the broken-windows policing of the late 1990s and early 2000s." Long-overdue police transparency measures such as giving the CCRB direct access to NYPD body-worn camera footage and requiring real reporting on FOIL compliance are necessary to achieve real public safety.

“Providing direct access to police records and data is an important step towards police accountability. New York, like the rest of the country, has experienced a massive shift in the way that we store and access information, including police records… however, even though it has never been easier to disclose information electronically in a timely manner, turnover of police records continues to be inexcusably delayed.”

Read the full testimony here.