 How's it going? Good morning. Oh, good afternoon. How's everyone? Good, Eric. When we do an analysis of crime, it's an amazing job what Chief Madri and his team, Chief Shell, have done over the year. And each month when they do a briefing, I notice that what jumps off at us, and that is the ever presence of GLAs. And as we stated before, that many of these GLAs is being fed by many directions. We always say there are many rivers that feed the violence and the crime that we see in our city. And it's all true also for Grand Lausanne autos. Last month, we talked about the role that TikTok is playing in Grand Lausanne autos. This month, we are looking at how the same problem we're seeing in certain cars, Akia, Hyundai, and Honda, particularly Akia and Hyundai, is leading the way. Right here in this precinct, this precinct reached a number of 200 GLAs. There's no other precinct in the city that has numbers like that. And it's not because of the work that the men and women here have been coordinated to target and zero in on the problem of Grand Lausanne autos. We have seen a decrease in all of the many of the other seven major crimes, decreasing shootings, decreasing homicides, decreasing robberies, Lausannies. But the aggravated number of Grand Lausanne autos continues to drive up our crime in the city. It gives the false sense that we're not moving in the right directions when we are. And so we're calling on New Yorkers to participate. Of your greatest investment is your automobile. It's used for many different reasons to get to and from your place of employment, to drop your children off every day, to deal with any medical procedures you may have. Using public transportation is not always the alternative for so many people. This is a partnership we can do together. I like to say a three-way partnership. Number one, by empowering everyday New Yorkers with a simple device as an air tag. Using technology, you hear me say it over and over again, using technology to fight crime, protect people, save property is the direction this administration and this police department is going in. This simple device, this simple air tag, is hidden in a car at a location that a person is not aware of is an excellent tracking device. It's easy to monitor the New York City Police Department is going to be putting out a video to explain the use of it. It's very simple. The charging life lasts a long time and you can see in real time where that vehicle is located. We wanted to have a partner, the second arm of the partnership is the police department. Soon as we're notified about a Grand Lausanne auto and even if it's days later, we can still track the car and find the person who's driving and put a break on what we are experiencing in the city with Grand Lausanne autos. The third arm of it is what we have really coined in this administration and that's our relationship with the business community. When I reached out to the Association of Better of New York and shared the possibilities of doing this, the response was immediate and they were willing to come in and pick up the cost of 500 of these air tags. These air tags could be used. We're going to be handing them out in this precinct which is really spiking in Grand Lausanne autos and we're going to be partnering with other entities in the city to also bring about this type of donation from not only our corporate partners but those who like to play a role in dealing with the Grand Lausanne autos we're seeing in the city. So my friend Mr. Rubenstein, thank you so much for your contribution. The chairman of the Association of Better New York during the 70s. This was an association that helped us build out of our economic challenges and once again during 2023 they are here again. Representing the Association for the Better New York is my good friend Mr. Rubenstein. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I'm Stephen Rubenstein. I'm the chair of ABNI. I want to say Mayor how grateful we are for your passion and specifically today for your tireless work to protect New Yorkers. Look many of us remember when auto theft was an epidemic on our city streets. When we were worried every single time we parked our cars we knew we could leave nothing in them and that included car radios right. There was a joke that went around back then that BMW stood for break my window. But the crimes weren't a joke and you didn't have to own a luxury car like a BMW to be a victim. These crimes stole things of real value and they undermined our overall sense of safety and security. Something that's true even if you didn't own a car. Today we're nowhere near close to the bad old days of our highest crime numbers. But smart leaders don't wait for things to spiral and we appreciate the mayor and the NYPD we're going to cut off this rising trend. ABNI CEO Melvin Miller and I were happy to step up when the mayor called and asked for assistance to do our small part on this issue. So we're donating 500 airtags to help the PD recover stolen cars as well as hopefully increase deterrence. The thing we really appreciate about this mayor is you're trying something new like we're seeking a new approach. It's a bit of technology. It's a simple idea but it's an innovative one and we really believe in trying things to see how they work. So mayor mentioned ABNI was founded 50 years ago. We've done things big and small. We've had our members advance pay their taxes to keep the city solvent. We've even given out brooms. We've donated life saving vests to the PD and we've run a campaign a massive campaign to help the census. So we do far and wide. Today's thing is a little more technological but we really wanted to say we're committed to helping. We're grateful that you asked. I want to say thank you and next I want to say thank you. I want to give the microphone to Chief of Patrol John Schell. I want to thank the chief for all he does. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. All right, good afternoon. It's good to be here with our mayor, our chief of department, Stephen Roomscene. Thank you for all coming. As we say time and time again, public safety is responsibly shared by all New Yorkers. We want to thank the associates from better York for this viral they're in playing helping us reduce our grant loss in the auto. The GPS devices donated by ABNY will be given to New York as another layer of protection for their vehicles by first locating and tracking stolen cars, then by acting as a deterrent for auto thieves. It also allows obviously to be more strategic while mitigating pursuits, keeping us safe and keeping the community safe. This technology is not new like Steve mentioned but when you use it in innovative ways it becomes a new means to increase public safety and further improve our quality of life. When our city faces an issue like car theft, in this case the proliferation of auto theft, we find a creative strategic way to correct the issue. Like new technology that may rolls out, our star chase and now air tags redeployed in an innovative way. And coupled with that, this regular crime prevention tip should all fall when it comes to autos. Don't leave our keys in our car. Don't leave our key fob in the car where the bad guys know when your window, when your mirror is opening closed, don't leave valuables in the car that are attractive to the bad guy. Those are regular crime prevention tips. Like the mayor said on our social media page now you'll be able to see how to use these air tags in an effective way. And last, you know, I'll work with the ABNY and the mayor's public safety team on this as no example of our approach to one city, one mission. Thank you very much. All right, so I'll be the techie. So you download the app to your phone, you deploy this air tag the way you want to deploy it in your car wherever you feel comfortable with. And when the air tag starts moving, vis-a-vis your vehicle, your phone be alerted, you know someone's in your car is not supposed to end or stolen, you call 911 as fast as you can, you tell the officers involved they have an air tag, and they immediately with our apprehension citywide apprehension apparatus will start putting that tag citywide. And hopefully we recover your car and damaged, we take a bad guy off the street and you get your car about to conduct your business and doesn't impose on your life. So I'm sorry, Kate. What I did was I gave one of the devices to our guys so they can move the car so you can actually visually see. It's a really amazing piece of ingenuity. You get alerted, you know, if you're homes and all of a sudden you get alerted that your car is moving, you can see exactly how the car is moving. And it's a very simple device. You can hide it anywhere in your car, not with someone who realizes there, and you can actually track your car moving. You can use this device so many times. You tell, you know, I used to tell my son, make sure you come straight home after school and I find he goes to another borough, now I can track him. I own a 2020 Kia Forte and I'm in the 49th precinct which has seen the rash of car stalling. Can I get one of those ad tags for my car? Hold on, hold on. That's very important. Kia, Hyundai and Honda, those are driving our numbers. We sued, did a lawsuit on Kia and Hyundai because they should do a better job but they are driving our numbers. So, GLA is driving our crime. Kia and Hyundai are driving the GLA's with pinpoint right. So, you're one less GLA we're worrying about, okay? Hey, just for the numbers, this year alone we have 966 Hyundai's and Kia's taken. It's plus 819 from last year and therein lies your business, therein lies the difference with some of our crime increase as related to stolen cars. We received some information that there were 200 GLA's in this precinct and I just wondered if you guys could clarify what time frame that took place over. So, over the past 28 day, over the year today we have taken 207 recorded GLA's, GLA's, this is year to date that we have taken 207 GLA's and so far this week we're taking another 9. So, this year today, January 2 present. Any more? So, there's a manufacturer's defect in both those orders where it's a plastic cylinder that covers the car. You can remove that plastic cylinder with a hardware screwdriver and a USB port that we use your iPhone will start that car right away. So, that's the issue and the TikTok challenge that came out in July of 22. Definitely without a doubt driving that, that issue when it comes to some of our youth taking these cars. So, if you go into TikTok, they actually shows in this challenge of stealing the car, they actually show how to use the everyday cord you charge your phone, how to jump start the car. And so, when you look at July 22, you'll see the spike that we are experiencing now because of what is happening or a large part of what's happening on social media. I think you had a question in the back. Will police have the ability to always track these tags or is it something that just the user can track on their phone? We will not have the ability to track any air tag that we give away. What happens is once the owner realizes that their car is missing for whatever reason, they call us and we'll look at their phone and we'll use their phone to track the vehicle. So, we'll be clear on that. This is not something this is not a centralized tracking system where we are in charge of tracking someone's car. If an owner gets a notification that their car is moving without their authorization, they will notify the police department who would automatically use that information with the owner's permission to track the stolen vehicle. Okay? So, we want to give an example. I know they downloaded the app now. Let's just give us a couple of minutes. The car is. So, if this car was a stolen car, we would have received a notification that the car is moving and it's actually showing you in real time where the car is located. So, police officers are able to go there with the owner's permission and apprehend this person who has stolen this car. These GLAs and not only GLAs, they are involved in robberies, they're involved in criminal possession of firearms, they're involved in hidden runs. So, when you are seeing these large number of robberies, the patterns are coming back to stolen cars over and over again as well as when you see the increased number of hidden runs. This is why we're zooming in on GLAs. They're the feeder to many other crimes. Got it? No, it's black now. Oh, okay. No, no, this is not to find my hat. Does it work on Android phones as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Android's got an event one. Okay, thanks so much.