A metropolis oversight company has discovered “gaps” in the best way the NYPD complies with authorized limits on cooperating with federal immigration authorities within the Trump administration’s roundup of probably undocumented people who has induced unrest in components of the town.
In reviewing 5 incidents involving ICE, the Division of Investigation report discovered that the Police Division usually complied with sanctuary legal guidelines barring cooperation with civil immigration enforcement. However in a single occasion, police might have improperly coordinated with the feds.
“DOI has concluded that the NYPD has been working diligently to ensure that its policies with respect to assisting federal law enforcement agencies comply with local laws,” the report discovered.
However, the report stated, the company “did find gaps in the Department’s current policies and practices that increase the risk of improper information sharing or assistance, as well as a failure to fully document and report federal requests for immigration-related assistance.”
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An individual holds an indication studying “Abolish ICE” as NYPD Strategic Response Group officers maintain watch over individuals protesting towards an earlier raid by federal brokers exterior 26 Federal Plaza on Oct. 21, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Adam Grey/Getty Photographs)
The probe was initiated earlier this 12 months after a request from Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Councilwoman Gale Brewer. In a joint assertion Wednesday, the 2 legislators known as the findings “deeply troubling.”
“It’s critical that any agency staff who violate city laws are held accountable to send a clear message that those actions are unacceptable,” they stated. “The NYPD must also apply greater scrutiny to federal requests, so it is not complicit in facilitating the Trump administration’s extrajudicial practices.”
In an announcement, the NYPD underscored that DOI discovered most of its insurance policies and procedures adjust to metropolis legislation.
“As the report demonstrates, the NYPD has worked diligently to comply with New York’s sanctuary city laws,” the assertion stated. “We appreciate DOI’s comprehensive report and have accepted all their recommendations to make our policies even stronger.”
Federal brokers stand by a BearCat armored automobile (background), as NYPD SRG officers stand by to manage a crowd exterior 26 Federal Plaza on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Adam Grey/Getty Photographs)
In maybe probably the most regarding of the 5 instances, DOI reported that in November 2024 an NYPD officer on a joint federal gang activity pressure “put out alerts” for ICE on a listing of alleged Tren de Aragua gang members dealing with potential deportation.
As soon as DOI introduced the incident to the division, the police officer was faraway from the duty pressure and his entry to division computer systems was restricted, the report stated. Investigators discovered no proof the officer truly relayed data gained from the alerts to the feds.
In one other occasion, in March 2025, the NYPD gave Homeland Safety investigators sealed arrest information for Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian lady detained at a Gaza protest at Columbia College.
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NYPD officers reply as immigration activists block a storage utilized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans throughout a protest towards a purportedly deliberate ICE raid on Canal St. on Nov. 29, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Stephanie Keith/Getty Photographs)
Homeland Safety stated its curiosity concerned a purported cash laundering investigation. However the information had been later utilized in Kordia’s civil immigration case. Police officers already acknowledged the data mustn’t have been given to HSI and tightened their guidelines about checking on the premise for such a request from the feds.
However DOI discovered the motion didn’t violate native legislation or coverage as a result of it concerned an alleged felony probe.
The report additionally provides an intriguing perception into circumstances surrounding communication on a deliberate NYPD raid on March 10 in the hunt for suspects in a gun trafficking ring on the Row Resort in Midtown. ICE supposed to ship numerous brokers to comply with on the heels of the raid and snatch probably undocumented individuals.
Police Commissioner Tisch cancelled the raid when she discovered ICE was conscious of it.
“NYPD executives — in particular, the Chief of Detectives and the Police Commissioner — complied with local law by putting a stop to potential ICE involvement with an NYPD operation that could have resulted in the NYPD assisting federal officials with civil immigration enforcement,” the report stated.
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An individual is detained by the NYPD after immigration activists tried to dam ICE vans throughout a protest towards a purportedly deliberate ICE raid on Canal St. on Nov. 29, 2025, in New York Metropolis. Activists assembled exterior of a storage utilized by ICE and later tried to dam ICE autos as they traveled from the storage down Canal St. to the Holland Tunnel to exit Manhattan. (Picture by Stephanie Keith/Getty Photographs)
DOI studies that 5 days earlier than the deliberate raid, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny was instructed by an ICE official the company supposed to ship lots of of brokers to the NYPD operation.
Kaz Daughtry, the town’s deputy mayor for public security, the report stated, instructed DOI that Kenny instructed him concerning the chat with the ICE official. However Kenny, in his DOI interview, didn’t corroborate the dialog with Daughtry occurred.
A New York Occasions story printed in June reported that Daughtry had been concerned in coordinating a big ICE raid on that lodge, a second lodge and migrant shelter on Randalls Island.
