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.
Not investigated by the NYPD though. I agree it’s bad that these complaints have been vetted and they still threw them out, but based on the bit you quoted, it’s accurate to say the NYPD didn’t look at them.
I didn’t say its false, just that they left out an important fact.
Fair!
To add the point I wanted to make was, this was not an oversight because there were so many inconsequential complains, they didn’t bother to look for valid ones.
This was with Intent. A “Fuck you with your misconduct complains, I won’t even look at them, I’m not gonna discipline my people”
No disagreement from me!
So I take it this means the NYPD thinks groin punches are appropriate?
ACAB.
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.
“Protect and serve” - but only if you’re rich.
