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Int 1546-2019

Requiring the police dept to submit reports on clearance rates of index crimes.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Public Safetyintroduced 2019-05-08

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2019-05-08Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the police department to submit reports on the clearance rates for certain serious crimes, disaggregated by borough and precinct.

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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15 passed · 35 died

This bill: 968 days in committee

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Sponsors (1)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2019-05-08 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2019-05-08 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2019-05-08 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Section 14-171 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 42 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows: � 14-171[.] Index crime clearance report. a. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: Clearance rate. The term "clearance rate" means the number of specific crimes where at least one person has been arrested at any time, not including voided arrests, divided by the total number of such crimes reported during a defined period of time. b. No later than 30 days after the quarter ending December 31, 2017 and no later than 30 days after every quarter thereafter, the department shall provide to the council and publish on the department's website a report regarding the clearance rate for the prior quarter, [which shall include a report for each] in total and disaggregated by borough[,] and precinct, [of the clearance rate] for the following crimes: 1. Homicide as defined in article 125 of the penal law; 2. Rape as defined in article 130 of the penal law; 3. Robbery as defined in article 160 of the penal law; 4. Felony assault as defined in article 120 of the penal law; 5. Burglary as defined in article 140 of the penal law; 6. Grand larceny as defined in article 155 of the penal law; and 7. Grand larceny involving the theft of a motor vehicle as defined in article 155 of the penal law. c. No later than 30 days after the year ending December 31, 2019, the department shall provide to the council and publish on its website a report regarding the clearance rate for the prior year, in total and disaggregated by borough and precinct, for the crimes listed in subdivision b. d. Each report required pursuant to this section shall be stored permanently on the department's website and updated quarterly or yearly, respectively, to reflect any crimes for which arrests were made subsequent to the publication of the most recently published such report. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. LS #9955 3/4/19 MKW 2 2