Int. No. 717
By Council Members Crowley, Brewer, Cabrera, Chin, Ferreras, Fidler, Gentile, Koslowitz, Lander, Mealy, Mendez, Palma, Recchia, Rose, Williams, Dromm, James, Rodriguez, Barron, Levin, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Gonzalez, Jackson, Garodnick, Van Bramer, Vacca, Dickens, Wills and Halloran
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the New York City Police Department to make certain statistics regarding crimes against women available through its website.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 14-154, to read as follows:
§14-154. Data regarding crimes against women to be placed on the world wide web. (a) The department shall indicate to the public, through its website: (1) how many victims of each of the seven major felony crimes are women; (2) the number of murders of women related to domestic violence; (3) the number of rape incidences of women related to domestic violence; (4) the number of felonious assaults of women related to domestic violence; and (5) the number of women who have been the victim of a hate crime. For purposes of subdivision (a)(5) of this section, the term "hate crime" shall have the meaning ascribed to it by section 485.05 of the New York penal law.
(b) The data required by subdivision a of this section shall be displayed on the first page of the department's crime statistics webpage, together with the police department's publicly available crime statistics for the seven major felonies, and shall be disaggregated by precinct and patrol borough in the same manner, and updated as frequently, as the seven major felony statistics.
§ 2. This local law shall take effect one hundred twenty days after its enactment.
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07/25/11