Beginning in August, nearly 700,000 warrants held across the city seeking arrest for low-level crimes will be tossed.

Four of the city’s district attorneys, including acting Brooklyn District Attorney, Eric Gonzalez, with the support of the de Blasio administration, will move to dismiss warrants more than ten years old. The dismissal of the warrants poses no risk to public safety as those individuals whose warrants are being dismissed have not been arrested in the past 10 years or their warrants would have been triggered. Furthermore, the warrants stem from summonses issued for minor infractions such as riding a bicycle on the sidewalk, drinking beer in public, disorderly conduct, and being in a park after dark.

“We have been working in Brooklyn to build trust between law enforcement and the community, and to focus our resources on violent crime. Dismissing these old warrants is an important step in advancing both of these goals,” Gonzalez said in a statement.

There are approximately 1.5 million open summons warrants citywide. These summons warrants, when left unresolved, subject those who have them to an automatic arrest when questioned by police on the street or during a traffic stop. They may also carry a number of negative consequences, including impeding one’s ability to apply for citizenship, to secure employment or obtain public housing, and subject undocumented immigrants to deportation.

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“The bulk of these summonses have been issued to mostly poor, Black and Latino individuals, many of whom may not even be aware that they have become open warrants that could trigger an arrest for minor infractions dating back many years. Vacating these warrants enhances public safety and promotes fairness,” says Gonzalez.

Approximately 143,000 warrants will be dismissed in Brooklyn; 166,000 in the Bronx; 240,000 in Manhattan; and approximately 100,000 in Queens. Staten Island District Attorney says his office won’t be participating in the program.

“Let’s move on and focus our resources on those violent criminals,” said Richard Aborn, of Citizens Crime Commission, told NY1. “Not on those criminals who ten years ago urinated on the sidewalk and we’re now going to drag them into court.”