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“Sometimes we need to get reset,” Okuzu, 31, told ABC World News Tonight Anchor David Muir. It’s a message that was taught to him as a recruit and it’s now being hammered home again to cops on the beat, with nearly 7,900 cops who in the last three months have gone through an unprecedented protocol of retraining the entire NYPD. And while he may not be a battle-scarred NYPD veteran, after 2 1/2 years on the force, he knows this - doing his job right means thinking first, taking his time, slowing it down, remembering to see everything - not just the dangers, the crimes and the criminals. It's one of the toughest assignments on the force. He walks and drives the sometimes-mean streets of East Flatbush and Brownsville as a cop in New York City’s 67th Precinct. Okuzu said he has no illusions about how dangerous his beat can be. A final budget must be passed by 30 June.— - Police Officer Chukwuemekanoso Okuzu was standing at his post in one of Brooklyn’s busiest business districts. Other hearings are expected in the coming weeks and potential policy changes could be part of the ongoing budget negotiations between the mayor’s office and the council. “Many with behavioral health needs cycle through the system over and over again, even for low-level offenses,” said Glazer. She also proposed that some low-level violations, like jumping a subway turnstile, should warrant only summonses or desk appearance tickets instead of time in jail, a punishment she said falls disproportionally on black and Latino men.Įlizabeth Glazer, De Blasio’s director of criminal justice, touted efforts to ease the penalty on young men – particularly for low-level marijuana possession – and stressed efforts to safeguard some violence-plagued public housing developments and keep the mentally ill away from the justice system. In city council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s state of the city address last month, she proposed creating a citywide bail fund to assist low-risk, nonviolent offenders pay small bail amounts, and the creation of a new office of civil justice to make certain that low-income New Yorkers have access to legal representation. Bratton is arguably the nation’s chief proponent of “Broken Windows” policing and his aides testified that the policy would not be disregarded. The use of stop-and-frisk has fallen, but some lawmakers may ask about another police strategy known as “Broken Windows”, which emphasizes cracking down on low-level offenses as a means to prevent more serious crimes. Many who lived in those sections of the city felt victimized by years of the police tactic known as stop-and-frisk, which allowed police to stop anyone believed acting suspicious. The public safety committee hearings will focus on improving the relations between police and communities of color, which have felt for years that they drew an inordinate amount of NYPD attention even as crime continued to fall. The police commissioner, William Bratton, who did not attend the hearing, has said the matter was part of budget talks.

Councilmember Steven Matteo, a Republican from Staten Island, suggested that the program pointed to the need to fulfill the council’s plan to hire 1,000 more officers, an idea not yet endorsed by De Blasio. The idea, though largely applauded by council members, did raise concerns about inadequate staffing to respond to emergencies. “We believe that focusing on neighborhoods will reinvigorate community policing in the NYPD,” said Susan Herman, the police department’s deputy commissioner for collaborative policing, in the first council hearing on police matters since the grand jury decision in Garner’s death. Those officers, while on that assignment, will not respond to 911 calls. And four precincts – two in Brooklyn, two in the Rockaways section of Queens – will be part of a new program in which certain officers dedicated to that precinct will spend one-third of their shift solely devoted to going street by street to form relationships in the community, NYPD officials testified. Officers in several high-crime Brooklyn precincts have begun meeting with at-risk offenders and gang members to offer access to social services to prevent violence. Precinct commanders have been attending services at local houses of worship to ally themselves with influential local ministers. The NYPD outlined a series of pilot programs intended to demonstrate more police involvement in minority communities – not simply as enforcers of the law but as partners. And while the underlying issues of the tension are at the heart of city council hearings on the matter, there were no fireworks at the initial session Tuesday. Now, a tentative truce between the mayor and police unions has set in and the protests have died down.