File #: Int 2322-2021    Version: * Name: Eliminating the NYPD vice squad.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 5/27/2021
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to eliminating the NYPD vice squad.
Sponsors: Daniel Dromm
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would prohibit the NYPD from maintaining a dedicated group of officers whose primary responsibility is to enforce prostitution related offenses. The bill would also prohibit the department from conducting planned undercover operations related to prostitution offenses and regularly allocating resources to the identification of individuals committing those offenses.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2322, 2. Int. No. 2322, 3. May 27, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-27-21, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 27, 2021

Int. No. 2322

 

By Council Member Dromm

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York, in relation to eliminating the NYPD vice squad.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14-191 to read as follows:

§ 14-191 Vice Squad Prohibited. With respect to the enforcement of offenses described in article 230 of the penal law, the department shall not:

a. maintain any bureau, unit, squad or any other dedicated group of officers whose primary responsibility is the enforcement of such offenses;

b. conduct planned undercover operations with the primary goal of identifying such offenses; and,

c. regularly allocate departmental resources, including personnel, for the purpose of identifying individuals committing such offenses.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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