The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
The department has killed more than 400 cases of alleged misconduct this year that an oversight board had investigated and substantiated. It’s part of a lax attitude toward discipline under the current police commissioner, Edward Caban, critics say.
The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of civilian complaints about police misconduct this year without looking at the evidence.
The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action. They included officers wrongfully searching vehicles and homes, as well as using excessive force against New Yorkers.
In one instance, an officer punched a man in the groin, the oversight agency found. In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him, according to the CCRB.
The incident involving the young man was one of dozens of stop-and-frisk complaints the NYPD dismissed without review this year — a significant development given that the department is still under federal monitoring that a court imposed more than a decade ago over the controversial tactic.
The headline is somewhat misleading because its even worse
The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action.
The cases were looked at and found valid and substaniated.
In every public facing job you always have nonsense complains from main-character-people that you can just dismiss. But these were not that. Not even partly. They were all rightful complains.
That's what you get for electing a corrupt cop as mayor.
Also Adams is yet another example, why having someone from a marginalized group in office does not mean that the represents or even really cares about the needs of that group past his own political advantage.
"We haven't investigated ourselves and assume we did nothing wrong." - NYPD
No, it's worse than that. This is "we refuse to investigate ourselves and actively reject the CCRB's finding of fact that we did something wrong."
So I take it this means the NYPD thinks groin punches are appropriate?
ACAB.
"Protect and serve" - but only if you're rich.
It is really beyond time for citizen review boards to stop being "advisory" and to start having the authority to impose punishments directly themselves.
As it stands, such boards exist to give the appearance of doing something about police brutality, but not actually be effective at it, and that's 1000% by design.
That's if they exist. Mayors/governors/councils/congress keep shutting down inconvenient oversight wherever possible.