L.L. 2017/166

Enactment date: 9/8/2017  

Int. No. 119-D

By Council Members Williams, Mendez, Richards, Rosenthal, Reynoso, Dromm, Rodriguez, Menchaca, Lancman and Perkins

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the New York city charter, in relation to the evaluation of civil actions, claims, complaints, and investigations alleging improper police conduct

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 3. The police department shall complete a study regarding judicial determinations that a police officer's testimony is not credible. Such study shall consider, at a minimum, the following:

   (1)   information on the availability of such determinations and the ways in which such determinations may be obtained;

   (2)   the number of such determinations obtained by the department;

   (3)   the value of such determinations in reducing improper police conduct;

   (4)   the value of including such determinations in any system that is used by the department to identify police officers who may be in need of enhanced training or monitoring;

   (5)   the department's current policies for the collection and use of such determinations, including, but not limited to, any enhanced training, monitoring, or discipline that may result from such determinations and any recommended changes to such policies; and

   (6)   a plan to establish a system for obtaining and reviewing such determinations.

No later than September 1, 2018, such study shall be submitted to the speaker of the council.

§ 4. This local law takes effect immediately.