A Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween 2019. The NYPD Is Quashing a Move to Punish the Officer.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-2019-the-nypd-is-quashing-a-move-to-punish-the-officer

Civilian investigators found that officers engaged in serious misconduct, including hitting one boy with a car, pointing a gun at another and wrongly arresting three teens. Then the NYPD intervened.

When it came to the officer who had hit the kid with his car, the NYPD said it was an “alleged traffic accident” and that therefore the CCRB had no authority to investigate in the first place.

The NYPD did decide that the disciplinary charges against one officer could continue — for using offensive language and telling one of the teens to stop filming on his phone.

It was all remarkable, but also par for the course.

Like many police departments around the country, the NYPD has complete discretion to overrule the civilian agency that is supposed to help oversee it.

[angrychair]

1. That is just wrong

Like many police departments around the country, the NYPD has complete discretion to overrule the civilian agency that is supposed to help oversee it.

Well isn't that convenient. So no actual independent, civilian oversight then. Got it 👍

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Me.]

3. So Where's Mayor Swag On This?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. From the article:

I’ve asked Adams’ office about the Halloween case — whether the mayor thinks that there has been justice in this instance.

I have yet to hear back.