Requires the New York City police department and the parks and recreation department to submit to the city council reports of crime in all parks, including playgrounds, recreation centers, beaches and pools within the city.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1575
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requiring the New York police department and the parks and
recreation department to submit to the city council reports of crime
in all parks, including playgrounds, recreation centers, beaches and
pools within the city; and repealing certain provisions of such law
relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision a of section 14-150 of the
2 administrative code of the city of New York is REPEALED and a new para-
3 graph 4 is added to read as follows:
4 4. Reporting requirements for crime status in parks. (a) In cities
5 having a population of one million or more inhabitants, the police
6 department and parks and recreation department shall issue a crime
7 status report. Such report shall include:
8 (i) the total number of crime complaints, categorized by class of
9 crime, indicating whether the crime is a misdemeanor or felony, for each
10 patrol precinct, including housing bureau and transit bureau complaints
11 within each precinct;
12 (ii) arrests, categorized by class of crime, indicating whether the
13 arrest is for a misdemeanor or felony, for each patrol precinct, housing
14 police service area, transit district, street crime unit and narcotics
15 division; and
16 (iii) summons activity, categorized by type of summons, indicating
17 whether the summons is a parking violation, moving violation, environ-
18 mental control board notice of violation, or criminal court summons for
19 each patrol precinct, housing police service area and transit district.
20 (b) Such reports shall include the total number of major felony crime
21 complaints for all parks under the jurisdiction of the department of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 parks and recreation. In addition, within one year of the effective date
2 of this paragraph, the departments shall submit quarterly to the city
3 council, the total number of major felony crime complaints for parks
4 under the jurisdiction of the department of parks and recreation.
5 (c) The police department and the parks and recreation department also
6 shall submit bi-annual reports on all summons activity, categorized by
7 type of summons, indicating whether the summons is a parking violation,
8 moving violation, environmental control board notice of violation, or
9 criminal court summons. Such summons shall be broken down by type of
10 summons, including but not limited to, illegal dumping, lewd acts, fail-
11 ure to comply with a sign, and illegal vending.
12 (d) The police department and the parks and recreation department
13 shall conspicuously post all reports online via such department's
14 website within five business days of the department's submission of such
15 reports to the city council and no later than one month after the end of
16 the quarter.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
