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.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•7 days ago

    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.

    • @norimee
      16•7 days ago

      I didn’t say its false, just that they left out an important fact.

        • @norimee
          10•7 days ago

          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”