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A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to submit quarterly reports relating to the issuance of desk appearance tickets

In enforcing misdemeanors and non-criminal offenses, the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) may either arrest the offender, issue a desk appearance ticket, or issue either a criminal or civil summons. The difference between a desk appearance and a summons is that issuing a desk appearance ticket requires the offender to be fingerprinted and booked, typically at a police precinct. This bill would require the NYPD to issue a quarterly report on the number of desk appearance tickets issued, disaggregated by the race, gender, and age of the person to whom it was issued, as well as the offense charged and the precinct in which it was issued.

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History

Jun 13, 2016
City Council
Recved from Mayor by Council
Jun 13, 2016
Mayor
Signed Into Law by Mayor
Jun 13, 2016
Mayor
Hearing Held by Mayor
May 25, 2016
City Council
Sent to Mayor by Council
May 25, 2016
City Council
Pass
Approved by Council

Affirmative

Non-voting

Medical

May 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Hearing Held by Committee
May 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Amendment Proposed by Comm
May 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Amended by Committee
May 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Pass
Approved by Committee

Affirmative

Medical

Jan 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Hearing Held by Committee
Jan 25, 2016
Committee on Public Safety
Laid Over by Committee
Feb 12, 2015
City Council
Referred to Comm by Council
Feb 12, 2015
City Council
Introduced by Council

Int. No. 662-A

 

By Council Members Levine, Dromm, Chin, Cohen, Gibson, Rose, Williams, Wills, Rodriguez, Rosenthal, Kallos, Torres, The Speaker (Council Member Mark-Viverito), Cumbo, Levin, Richards, Palma, Garodnick, Eugene and Lander 

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to submit quarterly reports relating to the issuance of desk appearance tickets

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-156 to read as follows:

  §14-156 Desk appearance ticket report. a. The commissioner shall submit to the council and the mayor, and post to the department's website, within 30 days of the beginning of each quarter, a report regarding the use of desk appearance tickets for the previous quarter. This report shall include the guidelines used by the department to determine when desk appearance tickets are used in lieu of a custodial arrest pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 140.20 of the penal law. This report shall also include, for any offense for which a desk appearance ticket may be issued by state law and for which either more than 500 desk appearance tickets were issued or for which more than 500 arrests were made pursuant to subdivision 1 of section 140.20 of the penal law, the rate of the use of arrests and desk appearance tickets for each such offense. This report shall also include the number of desk appearance tickets issued, in total and disaggregated as follows:

1. the patrol precinct, housing police service area and transit district in which such desk appearance ticket was issued;

2. the borough in which such desk appearance ticket was issued;

3. race;

4. gender;

5. age; and

6. offense charged.

b. The information in subdivision a of this section shall be stored permanently on the department’s website, and each quarterly report shall include a comparison of the current quarter to the same quarter in the prior three years, and the current year to the prior five years, where such information is available.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately, provided that the first quarterly report pursuant to section 1 is due within 30 days of the quarter beginning July 1, 2016.

BG/RC/BC

LS 3409/2014

5/16/16