Int. No. 959-B
By Council Members Levine, Miller, Torres, Gibson, Chin, Cornegy, Eugene, Gentile, Johnson, Lancman, Mendez, Palma, Richards, Rose, Cohen, Rodriguez Dickens, Rosenthal, Dromm, Van Bramer, Cumbo, Levin, Wills, Kallos and Barron
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on hate crime statistics
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