The unusual decision by Deputy Commissioner Joseph Reznick, head of the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, has raised eyebrows within the NYPD over conflict-of-interest issues and led to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the officer who made the complaint, Scott Munro Jr.
The Berkeley police officer who shot her gun, striking a vehicle linked to a robbery call last summer, was found to have committed no crime, but violated the department’s deadly force rules and was fired, Berkeleyside has learned.
Officer Cheri Miller’s gunfire struck the getaway car but hit no one inside it, the police investigation found. One month after the shooting, Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood who retired Friday found that Miller had violated BPD’s use-of-force and vehicle pursuit policies when she fired her gun, according to records released by the department in response to a Public Records Act request from Berkeleyside.
Suffolk police reform plan calls for standard use of body cameras, changes to traffic stop protocol
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Mar 14, 2021, 9:22am EDT
Suffolk County unveiled its police reform plan on Thursday, a step that was mandated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year following the protests about the death of George Floyd in police custody.
The plan proposes that body cameras be used as standard police equipment for all Suffolk County police officers who engage with the public.
One of the biggest proposed changes is that Suffolk police will no longer conduct vehicle searches on routine traffic stops based solely on the vehicle operator s consent.
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