Int. No.
By Council Member Dinowitz
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the police department to report on the status of hate crime cases
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 14-161 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 110 for the year 2016, paragraphs 8 and 9 of subdivision a of such section as added by local law number 112 for the year 2016, paragraph 10 of subdivision a of such section as added by local law 111 for the year 2016, and paragraph 11 of subdivision a of such section as added by local law 130 of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
§ 14-161. Online reporting of domestic violence and hate crime statistics. a. The department shall collect and post the following data on its website:
1. [the] The number of domestic violence radio runs;
2. [the] The number of reported murders related to domestic violence;
3. [the] The number of reported rapes related to domestic violence;
4. [the] The number of reported felonious assaults related to domestic violence;
5. [the] The number of reported hate crimes;
6. [the] The number of reported murders determined by the police department to be hate crimes;
7. [the] The number of reported felonious assaults determined by the police department to be hate crimes;
8. [the] The number of reported complaints and murders determined by the police department to be related to domestic violence that were reported to have taken place on the property of the New York city housing authority, shall be reported in total and disaggregated by precinct and public housing development;
9. [the] The percentage of reported felony crimes determined by the police department to be related to domestic violence; and
10. [the] The number and percentage of domestic incident reports prepared for all crimes determined by the police department to be related to domestic violence that involved intimate partners.
11. The number of complaints and arrests classified as a hate crime disaggregated by:
(a) [race] Race, sex, and age of the arrestee; and
(b) [type] 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.
12. The status of each hate crime case for which a person has been arrested or indicted, including: (i) whether charges were filed against the defendant; (ii) whether the case against the defendant has been dismissed; (iii) whether the defendant has been released on bail; and (iv) whether the defendant has been convicted or acquitted.
b. The data specified in subdivision a shall be posted on the department's website in the following manner:
1. The data required by paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 shall be reported in total and disaggregated by precinct and reported monthly, quarterly and annually. The first such monthly report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2017, the first such quarterly report shall be posted no later than 30 days after the quarter ending March 31, 2017 and the first such annual report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2018.
2. The data required by paragraph 8 shall be reported semi-annually and annually. The first such semi-annual report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2017, and within 30 days after every January 1 and June 30 thereafter, and the first such annual report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2018.
3. The data required by paragraph 10 shall be reported quarterly and annually. The first such quarterly report shall be posted within 30 days after the quarter ending on September 30, 2017, and the first such annual report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2019.
4. The data required by paragraphs 2, 5 through 7, 9, [and] 11 and 12 shall be reported in total and disaggregated by precinct and reported quarterly and annually. The first such quarterly report shall be posted no later than 30 days after the quarter ending on March 31, 2017, and the first such annual report shall be posted no later than 30 days after January 1, 2018.
c. For purposes of this section, the term "hate crime" has the meaning ascribed to it by section 485.05 of the New York penal law.
d. The data reported pursuant to this section shall remain on the department's website for no fewer than 2 years.
§ 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.
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LS #8964
05/14/24 4:30 pm