NYPD Oversight Board Overturned Hundreds of Its Own Police Misconduct Findings

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"Among current appointees to the board, two reps appointed by the police commissioner — ex-cops Salvatore Carcaterra and Frank Dwyer — voted to reverse CCRB investigator findings of misconduct in 55% and 43% of the substantiated allegations they reviewed"
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NYPD Oversight Board Overturned Hundreds of Its Own Police Misconduct Findings
Internal analysis found 585 allegations from 2014 to mid-2020 in which Civilian Complaint Review Board investigators confirmed police misconduct — but the board voted to clear the cops of wrongdoing.
thecity.nyc
5:38 PM · May 4, 2021

https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/5/4/22419968/nypd-oversight-board-ccrb-overturned-cop-misconduct-findings

Several members of a board that probes NYPD misconduct regularly overturn their own staff’s investigative findings that wrongdoing occurred — helping to clear cops in hundreds of cases in recent years, an internal analysis obtained by THE CITY shows.

The process, known as “flipping” cases in Civilian Complaint Review Board parlance, represents a little-known layer in the lengthy police disciplinary process that has contributed to a wider reduction in officers facing punishment for misconduct.

The CCRB analysis found that the 15-member board’s rotating three-person panels overturned 585 allegations of police misconduct that had been substantiated by the board’s investigators from January 2014 to May 2020 — for a flip rate of 11.4%. The board substantiated 5,127 allegations of misconduct over that time period, according to the analysis.

Over the same years, the panels voted to substantiate 180 allegations of misconduct in cases where investigators were unable to confirm wrongdoing — out of nearly 39,000 unsubstantiated findings — a flip rate of .5%.

The analysis found a significant disparity in the voting records among five of the 10 members whose tenures overlapped with the years examined.

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