NYPD seems to be aware it's doing a terrible job, but, unwilling to be transparent, and get more than it's current (and past) amount of criticism, probably because there is no way to improve the professionalism of those with a badge (Professionalism is 1/3rd of their motto on every NYPD vehicle door)

but there is a way to get around the NYPD silent treatment concerning what the police do, and when. 

Monitor their every move. The NYPD refuses to make the dispatched locations public info, on their own, without a court order. 

But thanks to tech, and a lot of it, everywhere the NYPD vehicles go, is recorded, legally, by dash cams. 

So, fuck you NYPD Chief Maddrey. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/nyregion/nypd-police-commissioner-sewell-maddrey.html The info is out there, and there's nothing you can do about it. 

A team of researchers from Cornell Tech analyzed nearly 25 million dashboard camera photos from drivers for rideshare services — like Uber and Lyft — to identify where police cars are deployed in New York City.

The photos themselves came from Nexar, a dashcam company that sells to rideshare drivers. The company made the photographs available to researchers in 2020, and the images in question were taken throughout the five boroughs between March 4 and Nov. 15 of that year.

The team identified some limitations of their work. Their approach, for example, only looks at city street images, meaning that police officers in subway stations can’t be monitored.

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-does-not-report-where-it-deploys-police-scientists-used-ai-dashcams-to-find-out