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Int 0959-2015

Requiring the police department to report on hate crime statistics.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Public Safetyintroduced 2015-10-15Local Law 2016/130

Enacted as Local Law 2016/130.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2015-10-15Passed: 2016-10-31Enacted: 2016-10-31

Summary

This bill would require the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to report on hate crimes quarterly and annually on their website. The data would be disaggregated by the animus towards a targeted group such as race, nationality, or sexual orientation and report on the demographics of the arrestee. The Department would be required to further disaggregate certain categories if a particular group that is the target of the animus is targeted at least nine times in a total of four consecutive quarters.

Committee on Public SafetyPolice Department, Civilian Complaint Review Board, and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, courts, legal services, District Attorneys, and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.

How it compares

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13 passed · 37 died

This bill: 361 days in committee

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Sponsors (25)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2015-10-15 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2015-10-15 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-10-16 · Committee on Public Safety
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2015-10-16 · Committee on Public Safety
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2016-10-11 · Committee on Public Safety
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2016-10-11 · Committee on Public Safety
ActionAmended by Committee
2016-10-11 · Committee on Public Safety
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2016-10-11 · Committee on Public Safety
AdvancedApproved by Council
2016-10-13 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2016-10-13 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2016-10-31 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2016-10-31 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2016-10-31 · City Council

Heard at (4)

City Council · 2016-10-13 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Public Safety · 2016-10-11 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Public Safety · 2015-10-16 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2015-10-15 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (19)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision a of section 14-161 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 110 for the year 2016, is amended by adding a new paragraph 11 to read as follows: 11. The number of complaints and arrests classified as a hate crime disaggregated by: (a) race, sex, and age of the arrestee; and (b) type of animus towards a targeted group that allegedly formed the motive for such hate crime, evidencing a belief or perception regarding a person's identity, regardless of whether such belief or perception is correct, with respect to the following categories: (1) Anti-Black; (2) Anti-Caucasian; (3) Anti-Hispanic; (4) Anti-Asian; (5) Anti-Ethnic; (6) Anti-Semitic; (7) Anti-Muslim; (8) Anti-Religion; (9) Anti-Gender Identity; (10) Anti-Sexual Orientation; (11) Anti-disability; and (12) Anti-Other. (c) Clauses (5), (8), (11) and (12) shall be further disaggregated by identifying the particular group that is the target of the animus in the event any particular group is targeted at least nine times in total in four consecutive quarters. �2. This local law takes effect immediately. BC/DA LS # 2565 10/4/2016 2