CCRB employees said they routinely encountered 2020 protest cases where officers covered shield numbers, wore police helmets with numbers that didn't match department IDs and where the NYPD didn't adequately track the locations it was dispatching officers.
Nearly two years after Black Lives Matter protests swept through New York City, the city’s police watchdog agency released new figures on its investigations into civilian complaints made against officers for alleged misconduct during the demonstrations, showing that very few charged with serious allegations faced any discipline.
“I'm very hopeful that the police commissioner will concur with the recommendation made by the CCRB, and her reputation from her prior job is that she takes discipline very seriously,” Darche said in an interview with Gothamist. Complaints stemming from police action during the 2020 protests, following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, have proven to be a challenge for the CCRB to investigate. Scenes of police action were often chaotic. Videos from the protests, which spanned several weeks, showed police pushing and pepper spraying seemingly peaceful protestors, kettling groups of demonstrators and hitting some civilians with batons.
Now, the agency is racing to meet a statute of limitations deadline of May 4th for all protest-related complaints and other cases that arose during then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s emergency pandemic orders. The CCRB’s most recent monthly report showed the number of fully investigated case resolutions more than doubled from January to February this year and members of the board are holding more panel meetings in order to push cases through.
But instead of increasing the overall number of times the NYPD followed disciplinary recommendations, the general concurrence rate – including more than 2020 protest-related cases – fell from 73% in 2020 to 68% in 2021.
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