It used to be that when cops helped old ladies cross the street or fixed somebody’s flat, it was out of the goodness of their hearts.
But now, thanks to a new app on NYPD-issued smartphones, officers can log their good deeds and get credit toward promotions and transfers, officials said Thursday.
Yes, brownie points: There’s an app for that.
“We’re trying to measure things we didn’t measure in the past; nontraditional indicators that didn’t show up” in the old system of cop evaluations, Kevin Ward, chief of management and planning for the NYPD, said during a press briefing at One Police Plaza.
The new app will let cops log not only their arrests and summonses, but their on-the-job kindly acts, as when transit Officer Frank Rendina bought $18 compression socks for a needy homeless man, Ron Brown, at Grand Central station last week.
Supervisors will still need to verify the good deeds, along with arrest numbers, during each cop’s monthly evaluation, officials said.
The app will enable “a more holistic view of each officer,” Ward said, adding that previously, “It was purely by the numbers.”
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