File #: Int 1237-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the police department to report on all criminal complaints and arrests.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 4/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on all criminal complaints and arrests
Sponsors: Oswald Feliz, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) to report data on all criminal complaints and arrests. Such data would include a listing of all criminal complaints reported to the NYPD, and information regarding each such complaint, including an indication of whether an arrest for the underlying complaint has occurred.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1237, 2. Int. No. 1237, 3. April 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1237

 

By Council Members Feliz and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on all criminal complaints and arrests

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-199 to read as follows:

                     § 14-199 Reports on criminal complaints and arrests. a. Data. The commissioner shall post on the department’s website, in machine-readable format, data on all criminal complaints and arrests. Such data shall include a listing of each criminal complaint received on or after January 1, 2007, and for each such complaint the following information:

                     1. A randomly generated unique identification number;

                     2. The precinct in which the incident occurred;

                     3. The date and time at which the incident occurred;

                     4. A description of the incident and classification of any relevant offenses, including reference to all penal law violations that occurred;

                     5. The date on which the incident was reported to police;

                     6. The suspect’s age, race, and gender, where known;

                     7. The victim’s age, race, and gender, where known;

                     8. The location where the incident occurred, including latitude and longitude if available, but in all cases at least as specific as the nearest intersection;

                     9. Whether the complaint has resulted in an arrest, or otherwise been resolved by the department;

                     10. The date on which any arrest or departmental resolution of a case occurred; and

                     11. If an arrest has occurred, the location of such arrest and the age, race, and gender of each arrestee.

                     b. Website. The information required to be reported by subdivision a of this section must remain posted on the department’s website indefinitely, and shall be updated on a quarterly basis with all new criminal complaints and any new arrest information.  

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS #18555

4/3/25