OIG-NYPD Twelfth Annual Report
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DOI's Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD (OIG-NYPD) issued its Twelfth Annual Report, as required by Local Law 70, covering the 25 public reports and one statement of findings it issued between 2015 and December 31, 2025. The report tracks the status of 275 recommendations made to the NYPD, of which about 58 percent have been fully implemented. It highlights two 2025 systemic reviews: an assessment of the NYPD's use of social media and an update on the NYPD's implementation of DOI's 2023 Criminal Group Database recommendations.
- Released
- 2026-04-15
- Kind
- Annual
Key findings
- Of the 275 recommendations OIG-NYPD issued to the NYPD between 2015 and 2025, the NYPD had fully implemented 159 (about 57.82 percent), partially implemented or accepted in principle 53 (about 19.27 percent), rejected 47 (about 17.09 percent), and continued to consider seven (about 2.55 percent). As of March 1, 2026, nine (about 3.27 percent) were no longer applicable. p. 1
- Two additional recommendations OIG-NYPD made to the Civilian Complaint Review Board during a prior review cycle have been implemented. p. 1
- The 2025 report An Assessment of NYPD's Use of Social Media reviewed executive posts on X (formerly Twitter) between January 2022 and August 2024 and found the NYPD's policies and practices did not fully comply with the Citywide Social Media Policy and that the NYPD did not provide sufficient oversight of posts on executive accounts. p. 1
- The NYPD accepted all six social media recommendations on April 28, 2025, and OIG-NYPD determined the NYPD had implemented five of them, with the recommendation to train all staff using official agency social media considered partially implemented. p. 1
- In the October 2025 Criminal Group Database update, OIG-NYPD assessed eight of 11 accepted recommendations and found the NYPD needed to revise its Impact and Use Policy, more clearly define the database's activation, renewal, and deactivation processes, explain the evidence required for entry, and name the external entities it could share database information with. OIG-NYPD issued 13 new recommendations, which the NYPD accepted in its January 13, 2026 response. p. 2
- In 2025 OIG-NYPD also conducted outreach including regular attendance at NYPD CompStat and quarterly presentations for newly assigned Internal Affairs staff at the Police Academy's Internal Investigation Course. p. 2