Thread by @AngelSDiaz_

Today, the New York City Council's Public Safety Committee is holding a hearing about NYPD's disparate enforcement of social distancing. @DRichards13, we also know NYPD has used drones and CCTV as part of this response. Now is the time to call for a vote on the #POSTAct.

So far, the Council is showing a united front in criticizing the NYPD. It’s notable they are openly saying we need to stop trying to arrest our way out of social problems.

That said, this is just the latest example of our city’s continued over reliance on unaccountable policing

It’ll take more than stern words to bring this problem under control. We’ll need active changes to how we fund city government, and how we hold police departments accountable.

Data about deployment directly in response to covid-19 will only tell part of the story. That’s because we haven’t had adequate oversight to combat over policing in communities of color during “normal” circumstances.

Would be curious to know the role of NYPD’s predictive policing system in making deployment determinations.

Any conversation about police oversight that doesn’t ask questions about the role of surveillance technology is incomplete. #POSTAct

The NYPD declining to speak about the central events that led to this hearing should be unacceptable to New Yorkers. Inviting politicians to meet with police at One Police Plaza is not oversight.

To say that the behavior we saw on video isn’t worth discussing because it’s a small percentage of the police’s overall response implies that the rights of the people in those videos don’t matter.

.@AndrewCohenNYC asking about data sharing between public health officials and NYPD. Would be great to drill down into how that data sharing could be automated with technology, and what the risks of that are. #1: justifying over-policing b/c it overlaps with covid hotspots.