 Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us for today's public safety briefing led by deputy mayor for public safety fill banks Following our last speaker. We will open it up for a few questions from the media followed by some questions that have been submitted by the public Head of today's briefing. I would now like to turn it over to deputy mayor fill banks. Good morning I'm joined here today by Hassan of E Who's the executive director of the office for the prevention of hate crime? Who's here as we kick off pride month 2023 to talk about the work his office does? Provide some safety tips for all those celebrating this month We also have inspector Anthony Russo commanding officer of the NYPD's Harbor unit and he will be discussing as we enter these summer months What the Harbor unit does to keep our water safe and give you a little breakdown in the inside exactly what goes Into that unit and then once again, we're joined back by Deanna Logan Who's the director of the mayor's office of criminal justice and actually Hassan's boss? and She coordinates the New York City's programs to divert individuals from the criminal justice system Into treatment or support services as well as assisting previously incarcerated people as they transition back home And Mark J. How they submit last week that brought together hundreds of people to discuss what the city is doing around diversion and reentry And she's here to tell us about that and how this summer went and it went very well And it was a very encouraging So if you are joining here for the first time we want to welcome you We hold these public safety briefings on a regular basis to bring you information on the various New York City agencies that are part of our office and We call it the public safety ecosystem When each of these agencies are doing to keep you safe in tips to help you protect yourself, right? So this is one team so the mayor has said from the beginning take all the public safety agencies make them one Let's get the community involved the not for province of all of everybody involved because safety true public safety can only be delivered If we deliver it as a team and if you would like to stay informed about these briefings and other news from this administration Visit here from Eric calm and sign up to receive emails from the mayor And you certainly will receive an email about the upcoming topics you can formally two questions You can send your questions in we will try to get to as many questions as we possibly can and the ones that we Cannot get to because of time constraints. We certainly will reach out and make sure you get your answer Okay, so as we all should know right the month of June marks a significant occasion in the lgbtq plus community Proud month. It's a time to celebrate love diversity Inequality and also as a special meaning here in New York City as this is the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ plus rights movement at home to the largest pride celebration in United States each year. This is something that we as a city should be proud of Particularly this year. We're expecting many pride celebrations to get back to their pre-pandemic levels of participation We certainly hope so and as the mayor announced yesterday We will be flying the pride flag the Philadelphia pride flag the transgender flag outside of city hall all month in Honor of pride month and to send a message that we stand with the lgbtq plus community So while this is a month for celebration as well as a time for action New York City is a leader in the country on equal rights But we recognize that there's more work to be done and we want to make sure that everyone is safe So right now we are going to people have questions. How we how we going about that? What he meant to take his place? How can we celebrate and how can we protect a vulnerable community that is a still a lot of hate? Against this particular community. So Hassan talk to us. What are we doing? Yes? Thank you very much deputy mayor banks. Hello folks happy pride We have a month-long celebrations happening in various parts of the city Queens is this weekend. We have Harlem coming up Brooklyn and then also New York pride among other events and Looking at New Yorkers and visitors will be partaking in these pride celebrations all month long And just as a reminder no matter your race color sexual orientation or gender identity The city of New York does not tolerate any form of hate bias or discrimination The office prevention of hate crimes was formed in 2019 to coordinate the city's overall response and prevention efforts on hate crimes We're part of the mayor's office of criminal justice and as part of our pride efforts Oh PhD has invested resources and continues to work with LGBTQIA plus organizations on Community-based efforts during the many pride events that are happening this month Now these community-based approaches seek to build comprehensive efforts that involve all of us collectively Working with our partners in law enforcement as well as in government other city agencies as well as community-based Organizations, we are collectively collectively working together to ensure your safety During this month and before I go into some of the efforts. It's important to go over some safety tips during this month as well, too And so when you're out there celebrating pride, it's important to be prepared And these tips are coming from our engagement with the anti-violence project I'll go over that later on as well as the NYPD LGBTQ liaisons So what can you do make a safety plan? Be prepared being prepared and establishing contact with your trusted circle and outside is very important should an incident occur Communication is key Some quick questions to ask yourself as you prepare should be who's in your trusted circle And who can you update about your whereabouts as you go out who needs to be consulted and informed if something occurs? I know many of you have these group chats Maybe it's time to develop another group chat with your friends your family or loved ones to be able to keep them informed about your whereabouts Be aware and communicate This is a month of meeting new people at the various pride parties Clubs or events and so make group plans among friends and check-in often Share information with friends about where you're going and when you'll check in again Protect your personal information on your phone Your phone is sensitive information and credit cards and contacts on it Some folks may use facial recognition or fingerprint recognition It's much more important to use passcode that you can type in to be able to protect your personal sense of information Traveling groups as you think over your safety plan, please know that there's safety in numbers Your group could also be that trusted circle or some of the folks in there that you check in with ever so often Meet in public and travel safety If you are meeting someone you make sure to meet them in public It allows for more safety as you're walking home or to a subway station stay in well-lit Populated sidewalks of weight shortcuts or walking through parks at night alleyways as I've said before their safety in numbers Again, your safety is key. So trust your instincts and if you feel unsafe You can leave and lastly, please don't forget call 9-1-1 if you witness anyone acting suspicious or threatening or an incident occurs Call the police immediately dialing 9-1-1 As I've mentioned before the office for the prevention of hate crimes coordinates the city's response and prevention prevention efforts on hate crimes Ophc funds and supports over 50 organizations on community-based efforts And all this is a part of the mayor's program called partners against the hate Ophc has been working with the New York City anti-violence project a local community organization that serves the lgbt qia plus community as Part of Ophc's partners against the path program the anti-violence project has launched its all Places safe spaces pride 2023 campaign Whether you're attending pride events in Queens Harlem or wherever else in the city our community partner the anti-violence project will be actively involved in many of these events and What they'll be doing is they'll be canvassing And tabling at pride events throughout the month passing out the safety tips I'd mentioned earlier as well as other resource information for folks that are celebrating and there's also a hotline lgbtq New Yorkers can also call a vp's hotline and the number is right over there For free crisis support safety planning Connection to counseling and other lgbtq services that are provided for folks throughout the city and lastly There are trainings. This is something that ophc supporting as well The anti-violence project is offering two free trainings this month to support community safety planning for individuals as well as event producers groups venue managers organizations that are hosting publicly lgbtq visible events and for more information on those trainings, please visit HTTP colon forward slash forward slash avp.org forward slash pride dash 2023 Listen every New Yorker should be able to go out at night enjoy our city's renowned night life with friends and come home safely to their Families and community our lgbtq ya plus community must be safe in field space, especially during pride month and So pHE stands with lgbtq community and through our collaboration with the NYPD The NY the New York City office of night life the mayor's office of community affairs unit The mayor's office of criminal justice with the deputy mayor's public safety team among all of us and the partners against the hate that represent this amazing group of Non-profit organizations you will continue to engage with lgbtq community and conduct outreach trainings Canvassing at many of these events to promote more to promote safe pride and partying and lastly The New York City Police Department is accepting requests to re-examine homicide cases Including cold cases involving lgbtq ya plus victims from concerned family and friends The NYPD Detective Bureau will facilitate these requests and provide information on the status of cases and Overall facts to determine whether a case should be re-examined for more information about this initiative Please visit the NYPD's website Click on about and then on re-examining lgbtq cases and it'll take you to it intake form Thank you so much deputy mayor. Thanks. Thank you You know you gave out a lot of good information and the information that you gave out actually can be applied to a Lot of different safety tips, but let's just be like one thing clear when I'm taking from that, right? This is almost like evil at its purest form that people take actions against someone for who they are and an attack Or any type of venom against this community is there's an attack against society? You know so if whether you're part of that community or not when someone attacks that community They're attacking society evil can win if if good doesn't stand together So this is almost like a call for action for not just the lgbtq plus community both just for our Everyday New York is right. We have to stand together We have to support each other and we have to make sure that we can do all we can to just eradicate that But most of us on this product month. We want to make sure that we you know They enjoy Everybody who wants to enjoy the and I'm gonna assume that these events are not just if you're part of the community Right almost anybody can open for open to that Very good So very good. So thank you. Appreciate it very much Okay, so next we're going to hear from Deanna Logan Deanna had had a very interesting summit. I had the fortunate to be invited to it. She allowed me to attend This particular summit. It was a diversion summit and once again It was one of the things that the mayor has stressed consistently is that when you are you know creating this this this Pie this cake whatever you want to call it as many people involved as possible I mean, there was a lot of people involved at this particular summit that you have right? So it just wasn't just city workers. It was not for profits there I saw some religious leaders that took place there and What I took from it was that hey, we want a society where nobody commits crimes, right? We don't want crimes in our in our society, but unfortunately, that's not going to happen But but we talked about the people who do commit crimes They all do not need to go to jail and that's where the version comes in what we can do as a society To stop them from getting into jail But in the fact that they had to be incarcerated when they're coming out How do we support them that they don't make a return trip, right? And there was a lot of interesting things there. So can you just share exactly what we're doing in that particular regard? Absolutely. Thank you so much deputy mayor banks. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for tuning in and joining us My name is deputy mayor banks that is Deanna Logan and I'm the director for the mayor's office of criminal justice Everybody affectionately refers to us as Mach J We are the think tank and coordinating entity for the For the mayor and for deputy mayor banks We advise on all of the criminal justice policy and serve as mayor's representatives to the courts and defenders as well as to State and city agencies law enforcement not-for-profit foundations, you know deputy mayor banks is being a little humble this morning I don't know why because he forgot to tell you all that he actually gave The opening remarks to the hundreds of people at this wonderful summit that we did about our reentry work So thank deputy mayor banks for that that support was greatly appreciated and really welcomed by all of the participants at the summit you know I want to step a little bit back before we get into the summit exactly but You know deputy mayor banks host these briefings so that we can give you clarity On all of the creeks that lead into the one river of public safety, right? And that results in the safe neighborhoods that all new yorkers deserve so Our work with mayor adams and deputy mayor banks is really to support the commitment they that This administration has to address public safety as an interconnected and holistic investment In people across the criminal justice system, right? When mock jay thinks about criminal conduct, we focus on addressing the factors that contribute to why a person is going to commit a crime Our teams collaborate with partners across the criminal justice system Continue them to provide individuals the skills and the support that they need to disrupt their individual patterns of criminal activity The services that we work to provide include ones that a judge Will order an individual to attend as part of a sentence for a criminal case and those programs are ones that are called alternatives to incarceration Other programs are voluntarily attended by individuals that are impacted by criminal justice but the first ones that the the deputy mayor is talking about are the ones that people who have committed a crime order to be sentenced to and That the judge is referring them to they have to do them and these alternatives to incarceration provide programs that balance accountability And supervision in community so not jail not prison When a person is sentenced to this Alternative to incarceration and across the criminal justice spectrum. We know there are lots of acronyms, right? So you'll hear lots of people who actually work in this space say ati ati This is what they're talking about. It is partner providers that Individually evaluate a person that's been sentenced by a judge to identify the triggers that may cause the person to reoffend and then They create the activities for the individual Factoring in those triggers and then including the support that a person is going to need in the community In order to be successful members and new yorkers coming back to the community And these accountability measures Plus any case management And coordinated services and those services can be outpatient services for primary care and mental health substance abuse treatments As well as education job training empowerment and self-help housing assistance money management And post program transition planning The investments are an integral part of the criminal justice system They give judges the tools to sentence individuals to activities That will discourage future criminal activity and reintegrate people into society We macjay currently have 14 dedicated not for pot not for profit Organizations that operate approximately 24 ati programs in new york city Across all five boroughs Overall in this first nine months of fiscal year 23. Those partners have served over 5,660 people These programs support healthy communities Now when we're talking about the programs that are not ordered by a judge those are the ones that are people who have criminal justice involvement who want to Make sure that they can be functioning members voluntarily attend themselves. And those are the reentry services macjay has reentry programming that is coordinated by its community justice reentry network Referred to as cjrn And we work to provide a supportive transition including release planning in jail and prison This continuum of service can start as early as when somebody has just been arrested And up through when a person is ready to be released from jail or prison The supports provided by the 10 cjrn service providers consist of wraparound services That are determined by the specific needs of the individual that's seeking help And those also may include paid short-term employment job training career certifications connections to permanent employment And holistic wraparound services that also include mental behavioral and physical health care family support and reunification benefit assistance case management And education as well as housing support Now during incarceration and upon release interested individuals work with reentry mentors Who help facilitate all aspects of reentry on an individual basis The reentry mentors develop relationships with released individuals To encourage participation in the services and programs The case planning and coordination during incarceration Combined with the robust services in community Help to ease the path to a stable life outside of custody and reduce the likelihood of individuals returning to jail or prison Many of our service partners which a lot of people don't understand Are committed to individuals for life So even if the person is no longer part of case management They can always go back to the providers that supported them in their reentry journey And ask for assistance and guidance We here at the administration as deputy mayor banks started us out with Are committed to ensuring that these services are invested in appropriately as a city And that we meet the needs of the courts the district attorneys the defense council and participants So that means we're constantly speaking with our partners and working to assess the changes in the criminal justice landscape identify any gaps and new needs And more often than not as mayor adams and deputy mayor banks have demonstrated on numerous occasion That simply means that we all just have to get in a room and talk it out And so last week we did just that We convened stakeholders for a divert version and reentry summit and as deputy mayor banks humbly pointed out He gave our key opening remarks During this day long event members of the courts district attorneys offices defender organizations Faith leaders thought leaders on housing partner service providers Sister agency members from the department of probation the department of correction and mayor's office of community health Came together to discuss best practices gaps and challenges They wanted to make sure that we understand what we are seeing in the current diversion and reentry landscape Our team is now synthesizing the information we learned from the summit And focusing on the areas that we need to strengthen We and our partners in the criminal justice system are committed to our continued collaboration To bring resolution to challenges and provide even more robust services We look forward to sharing more details and insights that are gleaned from the summit Under mayor adams and deputy mayor banks's leadership We are clear that across the criminal justice continuum Public safety is a common goal of new yorkers and requires the cooperation Of all of us. So thank you deputy mayor banks. Your support is always greatly appreciated. Thank you So, you know, so let's just talk about this for a second. Right now, um my colleague here Inspector vooso I spent many years in the nypd And I've said this when I was a young officer until the time I retired arresting right people putting people into the criminal justice system Is not the answer. It's a small Unfortunately necessary part, but society has to find a different way now if we define who You know commits these crimes we can break that down to the various different segments There is a large number of them that can be saved A lot of them Do not know how to read A lot of them don't have any support system and I am not making excuses I'm saying there is a percentage of them that as a society We need to be able to give some type of assistance to because we can divert them and I it was very encouraging, right? Um, and she keeps saying I gave the keynote. I gave two minutes and they just couldn't wait till I was finished speaking But I got to the real speakers, right? But it was just some really interesting dialogue that's going there. We can save these people that's that's uh Divert them But then the ones that have to go and pay a debt to society, right? If we put them into the criminal justice system and we don't teach them how to read Right, and we don't give them any support at all when they come back out to these neighborhoods They're going to commit the same amount of crimes. I mean actually they're going to become worse because the year's older, right? So we have to get the criminal justice system and I would argue in this country, right? So I think that you're doing I don't know if it's politically correct. I can't say you're doing God's work, right? Is that politically incorrect now? You're doing just phenomenal phenomenal work. It's taking place here. I certainly applaud you But also it's not it's not just you it's not this administration, right? This is the community that's out there these diversion programs these unsung heroes of new york city that is doing it. We can save Uh, a lot of these individuals or overwhelming majority's individuals We can divert them we can give them reentry services and we can actually help produce them into productive members of society and that's what we need to do and to the audience out there We need your feedback, right? We can't do this alone. So it might be that one suggestion that you do have Right, so just make sure that we put out there Uh, the office mark jay's uh email certainly my office email or my email itself give me give me ideas and suggestions Let's see how we can work that out But I have to up to you to most things that you do dm because uh Your office or your unit always seems to really just turn turn out really really good and positive stuff And I appreciate it very much So certainly last right, what's the saying is going last but not least as I would go last but not least we have uh Inspector Russo from the harbor unit, right and I was at harbor patrol For years years years ago Probably before you was even in the police department. I know people just saying they got harbor unit And they do have a harbor unit and they they they um provide Many different functions that a lot of people just don't realize And the ones who didn't realize it you're going to realize it now because the commanding officer, right Inspector Russo is going to tell you he's going to tell you a little bit about their search and rescue their counterterrorism efforts We have june coming up. This is the opening of these beaches a lot more people are out in the water water safety is uh imperative So inspector Russo tag you're it Good morning deputy mayor banks. Thank you for this opportunity. Good morning everyone So the nypd harbor unit we have a rich history. We're around since 1858 We started out with wooden boats steam powered vessels gas engines diesel engines Now we're up to some jet driven boats, which are like your jet skis A lot of things we see in the summer Right now you could go buy a boat you can without a license without knowing anything you can go purchase a vessel And you're the captain you're going out you can bring out a bunch of friends You don't have any experience. You don't know the equipment. You don't know the boat very well It's very different than driving a vehicle. First of all it steers from the rear where a car drives in the front You can't pull over to the shoulder if you break down like you can with a car You have trouble on a boat. You have to anchor and you have to call for help if you can That's why your safety equipment is important. So you'll see us out there doing motor boat inspections But they're not more for enforcement. It's more for education and safety So we they will stop you and ask to see some of your items such as flares Sound signaling device a radio It's all for your safety. It's all stuff. Hopefully you'll never have to use but if you have a boat It's definitely stuff you want to invest in you want to have a vhf radio to call for help And if you do have to use that it's vhf channel 16 That's the international distress signal that'll go to coast guard as well as nypd We're on vhf 17 if you want to raise us directly if you have something that's like non-emergency Maybe you see some jet skis near a ferry and you want to alert us to it And and you want to have your cell phone you're in new york city water So you're going to hit the cell tower If you call 911 You'll hit a cell tower and it'll come to special operations division radio, which is what harbor monitors and will be able to respond So we have a 24 seven response capability We also have a full 24 hour seven day week scuba team As well as two divers in a helicopter With aviation so the way that works is aviation crews the helicopter. They have the pilot the co-pilot and the crew chief Which is the guy who operates the hoist if you ever watched like the guardian the coast guard film The guy who operates the cable and two of my divers They're able to deploy in surface rescue gear or full scuba So whether it's a submersion or a surface rescue, they're able to deploy from that helicopter Most important thing is if you do call for help on a vessel is Location location location like they say with real estate Give us your location if you can't give us anything else Give us that If you have a gps look at your latitude and longitude on it Read it out Give it to the 911 operator put it over channel 16 If you can't do that because your gps is not working or you lost power or you don't have one Give us the landmarks that you see buoy numbers Try to give us a couple of landmarks. I see the verisano bridge To my to forward. I see the marine parkway bridge to my right. We kind of know you're south of the verisano bridge and Make some noise when we are responding if you have a horn or a sound signaling device That's why all that stuff is important Like I said, you can't pull over to the shoulder So all that safety equipment your flares and all that stuff is very important Some of the common things we see during the year is overloading Your boat has a capacity plate. It's usually near the helm, which is where you steer from It'll tell you how many people you can put on that boat and what the weight limits are So you want to kind of stick to that especially if you're going to go out in rough weather You might even want to cut that down a little bit because the more people you put on the boat The lower it is to the waterline and that's when waves can come over and swamp the boat Another thing is obviously people associate alcohol and boating That's great for the passengers, but The guy driving the boat is subject to the same laws that you are when you're driving a vehicle. So You don't want to drink. You can't have an open container in your hand You can't be boating while intoxicated and Boats when they collide they don't crash into each other like cars where they'll just hit and Push the other car away boats go up and over Smaller vessels so an accident is much more deadly on a boat Then it would be with a vehicle You gave that was a lot of good information. So let me just try to try to break this down What about this swimmer who does not own a boat that's out at the beach? What are the some of the safety tips that you want them to be prepared for? What are you seeing as far as that is concerned? So we gave a lot of good information to the boatists, but the majority of the people going into the water not going to own a boat What what are we saying to the swimmers out there who are visiting our many many beaches, right? So we have uh, you know every every borough, right is New York City is water. Yeah, it's the water So talk to a swimmer for a second. What do you want them to know? Yeah, so the most important thing with swimming is know your limits respect the ocean It's much different than a pool. You can't see the bottom. The water's colder You're subject to wind waves current And respected know your limits if you're not a good swimmer. Don't go over your head Most importantly, even if you are a good swimmer is swim in only guarded areas where the lifeguards are working Because anyone can have a medical emergency a cramp And if you're not where the lifeguards are no one's going to see that you're in distress and that's most of the times Uh, unfortunately when we have these drownings, it's it's people who go to unguarded areas or beaches after hours when the lifeguards are no longer around Now people know what the precents are, right? So how many how many scuba quote unquote precents do you have? Do you call them precents and where are they and just give us a little information on that? Okay, so they're they're called harbor bases. We have five of them We have harbour atom, which is uh in shell bank basin by russo's on the bay close to jfk airport We have harbour charlie, which is that's off of cross bay boulevard Off cross bay boulevard right right on that same strip where russo's on the bay is no no relation Otherwise I would not be here talking We also have harbour charlie, which is also my headquarters and the headquarters for the scuba team That's in sunset park brooklyn the 7 2 precinct brooklyn army terminal We have harbour david, which is on the intrepid. That's in the hudson river That's uh 46th street and west side highway We have harbour george, which is near leguadia airport and that covers the waters of queens and broncs going out to the long island sound And then we have our launch repair shop in the Harlem river, which is where we repair all our vessels So we do all the repairs on our own vessels. Yes Now talk about scuba uh quickly scuba part of the harbour unit is a separate unit Are you the commanding officer of the scuba unit is tell us a little bit about the scuba team? So so the scuba team is under the harbour unit. I'm the commanding officer of the harbour unit and the scuba team They have a separate supervision assigned to them. They have a lieutenant and sergeants just like any other Unit in the police department, but they fall under me They have the toughest physical on the job because they operate in almost zero visibility Uh, they operate in currents. There'll be cold water warm water Dark of night great days. They're out there in all conditions and they do dive every single day. So Speaking of what deputy may banks was talking about counterterrorism efforts We do them above the water below the water So the harbour launchers will do directed patrols and and all kinds of patrols at critical infrastructure in the harbour power plants airports bridge stanchions tunnel vents The scuba team will dive those things and every day they're assigned a different location to check Bridge stanchions tunnel vents seawalls Like for instance before the 4th of july which I would like to get into at some point about safety with that We will check the seawalls where all those people are going to be gathering to make sure there's no suspicious devices now Scuba which are the commanding officer they do work closely with the aviation unit, right? So tell us about that relationship and why why why is that important and what is that? So aviation they can get there a lot quicker than us and that's why it's critically important that we do have Two scuba divers on the helicopter So the aviation unit runs the helicopters. They have the pilot the co-pilot and the crew chief And then two of my divers are assigned to work with that air crew. They could deploy in full scuba or surface gear The importance of that like deputy may has said is if there is a distress call of people in the water The helicopter could be there almost any point in the city within eight minutes even with their pre-flight check So they may be first on the scene and then I have my scuba launch The divers that are on the boat to back them up if the dive operation becomes more complicated and more dives are involved So in the event that we get a call that someone is in the water There's a mergers take a place aviation is going to launch They're going to have two scuba divers and when they get to the scene The scuba divers are going to deploy from the aviation helicopter go down there to try to mitigate the emergency Right and that's done for rapid response But then subsequently the harbor launch with the scuba divers for backup is coming as well. Yes. Yes very good Actually, and I think we had some I heard some good news last week that we have a female scuba diver Is it the first female diver? Yes the first female scuba team member She passed the physical about eight months ago, which is as I said before is the toughest physical on the job She's a legacy also Dad worked with me. He was a sergeant in scuba Since retired moved on and uh, she came to the hobby unit a few years back Her dream was to become a scuba team member Trained very hard for it Passed it and just passed our rigorous eight months of training and is an official scuba team member now So just give a real quick example of what is some of the training that you have to go to in order to pass The qualifications because I got tired listening to it a few seconds ago So let's explain to the audience briefly what what that is Okay, so it starts with the physical like I said is the most rigorous on the job 12 chin ups 37 push-ups 50 something sit-ups a mile and 648 500 yard swim And then they they kind of torch you underwater to make sure you're comfortable with your scuba gear That's where you earn your bones and get on the team Then you start your eight months of training and a lot of it is zero visibility diving In the most terrible conditions dark You'll have entanglement. They'll bring you to places where there's Old pilings wrecks So there's a lot of entanglement and they dive free. They don't dive tethered So they try to expose you to every single type of dive you can do You also go for ice dive training where you're uh underneath the ice. They'll cut a hole in the ice We send them upstate just To train with the state troopers And they'll cut a hole in the ice and have to dive underneath the ice to do simulated rescues They learn to jump out of the helicopter as well as be lowered Put victims in baskets bring them back up They all go to new york state emt training So they're the same that you would get if you called 911 and you get a basic life support ambulance They're emt certified so they could treat the victim once they're hoisted back up into the helicopter So our end with the success is Having the first female dive at progress is when we have the second So let's make sure that we can get to you. Uh, we're not gonna stop. You did an excellent excellent Okay, so I guess that concludes our weekly briefing today. So derrick. I'm gonna turn it over to you Thank you deputy mayor We will now take any questions on topic questions that we have from the media related to today's presentations Katie honan from the city. You can now unmute your line. Was that for me there? Yes, that was hi, Katie Hi, thank you so much. I thanks for this really great briefing. Um, my boat tip. You don't need to buy a boat You just got to get a friend with the boat But I didn't ask a question. Um, not necessarily related to these topics But my colleague yellow wrote a story about the sheriff anthony moranda who's been a guest on this show I've got some of his involvement in what appears to just be scam coped prevention It was a bad you wore that was supposed to put something in the air to get to block covet So I just wanted to get your take deputy mayor, um, you know, if this raises any concerns about him and his judgment, especially since some of his Stuff is is party related and this is like, uh, law enforcement that he's working on and he was involved in this clear scam about Preventing a virus that killed thousands of people in new york city. Hey, Katie. Thank you very much for that question Unfortunately are running up on time. So we're not going to be able to take any off topic questions But um for questions not related to today's presentation, we'll refer you to the press office Yeah, make sure she refers that because I'm interested in answering that question All right Earlier this week the administration reached out to new yorkers asking them to submit questions for the officials that have joined us here today We will now get to as many of those as we can with the limited time that we have left I'm gonna go kind of quick since we're running out of time our first question comes from de maris and the bronx for Director logan who asks How does the mayor's office of criminal justice collaborate with law enforcement agencies and community organizations to address crime and improve public safety? Well, thank you very much for that question de maris. We work very closely with all of those entities and including the public The best example I can give you is mayor adams is retail summit and the subsequent report We worked with all of those stakeholders deputy mayor banks to pull together Not only the law enforcement, but also partners in the retail industry target and Bodega owners supermarket owners to talk about the challenges But then also to brainstorm the the ways that we collectively could address retail theft in new york By deploying various strategies for enforcement as well as education and support services Thank you. Next question comes from executive director navid from canil and brooklyn I believe you touched on this but to answer his question. He asks where can I report a hate crime and or how can I report a hate crime? Thank you for the question. Um, it's extremely important when you witness or see a hate crime is to call 911 You want to be able to make sure that folks are safe in that instance? And when it comes to calling 911, please know that if you are a victim of a crime your immigration status doesn't matter We are here to help the police department's here to help at the same time when those calls are made to 911 Those calls are always language accessible as well So when you do call make sure to mention the language or direct the individual to language They will connect to someone on language line to be able to facilitate that reporting And I just I just want to follow up on that real quickly and this is not to put any guilt on anyone But when you don't report, I mean think about what a hate crime is right when you don't report it Um, we possibly give that individual the opportunity to commit more crimes, right? So it's not just the severity of that incident, but there's future So you have to report it that intel information That gets into the police department is very very critical And we need to as a community stop and these crimes as much as possible. So great question And uh, let's all team together on that and I'm sorry to jump in and answer I actually would also like to say that if there are bias incidents because sometimes things happen And it's not does it rise to the level of being a crime bias incidents? Please come to our website report it to us because we also look at bias incidents and we deploy Education and community organizations to help support where there there may be some of those incidents that are occurring as well And just to highlight on what deft mayor banks was saying when we're looking at the data with the nypd hate crimes task force And we're seeing particular trends in areas of certain crimes at certain sort of levels It could be in a particular neighborhood. We are engaging with community organizations and local precinct for intervention in those particular areas It could be something like canvassing in the community itself engaging with businesses Doing safety walks, whatever else possible to be able to ensure that we are mitigating those crime incidents itself I'm going to put our next two questions together for inspector russo, uh, which is david from bronx and Uh pro cash from queens who asks is it illegal for jet skis to jump the wakes on passing boats? And the second question is are there rules against grilling with propane on a boat? Okay, so in terms of the jet skis Yes, it is illegal to jump wakes and that was one thing I should have mentioned and i'm going to mention it now As opposed to a car you are responsible for your own wake on a boat So when you are passing people If that wake does any damage or causes any injury you have to be very cognizant of that Explain what a wake is to the audience who do not know what it is So okay, so so the the displacement of the boat How much of the boat goes under the water pushes the water aside as the boat moves through the water And creates the waves that you see coming out the back of the boat So those waves that you create depending on your speed and how your boat's sitting in the water Uh can become bigger Usually it'll be in like a series of three But those waves that come out of your boat that wake if it destroys anything or causes injury You are responsible with uh for that according to the navigation law So you have to be very cognizant of that if you're going through a uh marina or a swim area And and with the swim area if I might mention the one thing We have a lot of people on jet skis now because they became very popular since covid people took to the water To have some sort of outdoor enjoyment Uh They lose steering when you when you come off the throttle. There's no more steering So you got to be very mindful of that and to stay away from swim areas As deputy may have said before we people are going to be using the beaches. Please try to stay out of those swim areas And are there rules against grilling with propane on a boat? No, no, there's not, uh, but you should be very mindful It's not the barbecue in your backyard. You are on a moving vessel It's going to rock. It's going to sway you might have a gasoline engine So these secure it down very well Make sure you shut the propane off when you're not using it and be mindful of any fumes Next question is for director logan from wilson and statin island who asks Can you just explain a little more about what the mayor's office of criminal justice does? Wow big question. There are The mayor's office of criminal justice is a think tank So we come up with ideas and then we work across the city to help Make those ideas a reality if there's something that addresses a challenge in new york city We have various offices that deal with Short-term rentals housing office of special enforcement who came before you at one point We have multiple professionals who really work on policy do research and then our big big thing is We take the data across the criminal justice spectrum and we look at trends We talk with deputy mayor bank's team and we explain things that we're seeing and then collectively We work with all of our partners to come up with strategies that will support new york city's ecosystem and create safe neighborhoods In a big liaison with the district attorney's office, right district attorneys the courts the state agencies governments It just has an example when when we start monitoring the amount of time it takes for a case to go through the court system Deanna takes place. We have to coordinate the efforts of all the district attorneys Right deanna and huttee takes place. So think of it is that there's anything that crosses One or two public safety agencies There's mark j and in addition to serving as a think tank and to become a creative ideas and study what other things around the Country is working and what's not working so we could kind of be the support for all the other public safety agencies great Shiloh and brooklyn has a question for the office for the prevention of hate crimes What measures are is your office taking to promote greater awareness and understanding of hate crimes? Thank you a good question and I want to plug in a particular program that's been very effective In really having new yorkers engage with each other and learn from each other the mayor's initiative breaking bread building bonds Seeks to bring new yorkers together 10 to 12 new yorkers at a table from different communities Across the city to be able to engage in conversations with each other on the how the human experience itself the experience that people go through is Really shared in many ways even though the outcomes might be different and so Breaking bread building bonds the mayor started this off at his time as brooklyn borough president It's something we launched earlier this year And we have seen the utmost eagerness of new yorkers and wanting to be able to do these events in their neighborhoods In their communities Across the city itself. I think the first week of just putting out the form itself and having people sign up We saw hundreds of people sign up and in so far the mayor's given us a commitment to a thousand of these dinners I think we're going to exceed those. I believe we are going to exam confident. We will But at the same time we will be hosting these dinners across the city as an office as well And so our next one we're doing ones with the brooklyn borough. Sorry with the The borough presidents across the city and we just happened with the bronx borough president a couple of weeks ago We had a good number hundred people come collectively together on june 22nd We'll be at the queen's borough president's office hosting one as well For more information on this Please go to http colon forward slash forward slash nyc.gov Forward slash breaking bread and you can sign up to be a host To be able to go through a training as well as to carry out one of these dinners itself in your neighborhood or in your community Or you can participate in one and experience what it is. It's pretty powerful You engage with folks in these conversations. You learn from each other I think one question that really resonates with me in these dinners has been What's the time that you felt uncomfortable? I think everybody can really relate to that question and the answers are different But imagine sitting there with people from different cultures communities Having that conversation realizing in many ways that we share a lot more than we actually do them We're different and so I would say that that's one particular way in our office itself We're working across the city to ensure that we have a comprehensive approach towards hate crimes that we're coordinating with city agencies Under diana's leadership as well as deputy mayor banks because we have 300 000 municipal employees multiple city agencies When it comes to hate bias and discrimination We want to be able to ensure that we're consistent in our approach And we're doing so in a way that puts the entirety of the government As well as the community Fighting hate bias and discrimination Thank you. And our final question comes from Marlenni in Manhattan for the nypd who asks when did the nypd harbor unit begin? Why and how has it evolved? So it started back in 1858 There were ships at anchorage that would be in pillaged by thieves So a couple of cops decided to go out and row boats and and arrest these guys and it snowballed from there So the department started building wooden boats at that shop that I had mentioned that we have on Randall's island And they went from steam powered vessels to gasoline powered vessels Now we have boats that are about our biggest boats are 70 foot long now And powered by diesel engines 2000 horsepower each Driven by jet We've evolved To keep up with all the new fast ferries that we have in new york city So all the new york city ferries are capable of doing 30 plus knots, which is about 35 miles an hour So the harbor unit started purchasing vessels back in 2012 that could match and actually exceed the speeds of these vessels So we could board them in case of a active shooter or active threat or some sort of medical emergency Thank you very much on behalf of the adams administration I would like to thank everyone for tuning in to today's briefing. We look forward to seeing you all at our next one. Have a great day