Tag: Police Misconduct

NYPD Vision for Fair and Effective Discipline

Police Department has substantially implemented the recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea today announced that the NYPD has now substantially implemented the recommendations of an independent blue-ribbon panel of former prosecutors and judges for improving the department’s internal disciplinary system. Press release HERE

Draft Policies for Public Comment

Welcome to the New York City Police Department’s Policy Review webpage. We welcome public comments on any of the proposed policy changes listed below. The comment period deadline for each respective proposal is displayed in its summary page. Once the comment period has ended, the NYPD will review the submitted comments and consider their inclusion in the final policy. Please click the link(s) to the policy you wish to review and send us your comments. HERE.

A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct. Few Were Punished.

An analysis by The New York Times found that the N.Y.P.D. has reduced or rejected recommendations for stiff discipline of officers in about 71 percent of 6,900 serious misconduct charges. NY Times article

The Report of the Independent Panel on the Disciplinary System of the New York City Police Department – see report HERE

Black And Hispanic NYPD Officers Reveal ‘Collars For Dollars’ Arrest Quotas In Discrimination Lawsuit Against The Police Department – Blavity News

“It was emphasized that we needed to stop male Blacks. Those were the ones Tsachas wanted to go to jail,” former officer Pierre Maximilien’s sworn affidavit reads.
— Read on blavity.com/black-and-hispanic-nypd-officers-reveal-collars-for-dollars-arrest-quotas-in-discrimination-lawsuit-against-the-police-department

Jennifer E. Cobbina: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot — this is not a pipe podcast

This is an interesting podcast. It is a nice discussion about Professor Cobbina’s book which I’m in the midst of completing.

I have a different reaction to the book than the author of the podcast.

Many people are obviously aware that this nation was founded on a system
of slavery, but what many people don’t know is that the origins of policing
in the United States can be traced to the institution of slavery.”
— Read on www.tinapp.org/episodes/handsup

Biased and Abusive: The harmful effects of everyday NYPD practices | by PROP

This report serves as another reminder that every day that NYC’s political leaders sidestep this issue, our so-called criminal justice system continues its abusive and discriminatory practices. It is a painful irony that the people targeted by “broken windows” policing make up the very constituency representing the political base of the city’s leaders proud to call themselves progressives……

www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PROP-Summer-Fall-2018-Report.pdf