New York's "Diaphragm Law" is DEAD! Last year, New York City introduced the "Diaphragm Law" that held police officers personally and criminally liable for making contact with a suspect's diaphragm during the course of an arrest. Instead of keeping New Yorkers safer, it had the opposite effect in two significant ways: 1) NYPD officers were highly discouraged from taking criminals into custody, and 2) when they did decide to take someone into custody, they would opt for higher levels of force (tas