In N.Y.C. Jail System, Guards Often Lie About Excessive Force
More than half of the roughly 270 correction officers disciplined over a 20-month period lied to investigators or filed incomplete or inaccurate reports.
The city jail system, including the notorious Rikers Island complex, has long been a source of complaints of brutality by guards. Credit.Richard Perry/The New York Times
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One New York City Correction officer struck a jailed person in the face for no legitimate reason. Another put a detainee in a banned chokehold several times. A third failed to stop subordinates from using unnecessary force, according to newly released discipline records.
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The New York State Attorney General’s Office is among those asking the Rensselaer County Board pf Elections to provide additional early voting sites in the City of Troy.
On April 9, the New York Civil Liberties Union wrote for the fourth time to the Rensselaer County Board of Elections asking officials to expand early voting in the Collar City.
Perry Grossman is the Senior Staff Attorney with the Voting Rights Project at the NYCLU.
“New York voting law requires providing equitable access to early voting and the existing sites have not provided equitable access. So hopefully with additional sites provided here and the data to show why it would be an improvement, the Board of Elections can finally settle on a better and more equitable early voting plan,” said Grossman.
Albany police end weeklong anti-brutality encampment after 15 minutes’ notice | The Daily Gazette
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Prior to those actions, police gave the group 15 minutes to disperse.
Protests began last week, after an altercation between demonstrators and officers in a Black Lives Matter protest.
After the encampment was destroyed, dozens of officers in riot gear formed a wall at two locations around the department on Arch Street.
Members of the State Police and Albany County Sheriff’s Office stood with them.
The officers were silent as protesters angrily confronted them and hurled insults.
Protesters square off against Albany police officers during a confrontation near the South Side Police Station on Thursday. PETER R. BARBER
Professor Karteron is the Director of the Rutgers Constitutional Rights Clinic. Prior to joining Rutgers in September 2016, Professor Karteron was a senior attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union.
At the NYCLU, she litigated complex constitutional cases involving police reform, the school-to-prison pipeline, the First Amendment, and voting rights. While at the NYCLU, Karteron served as lead counsel in one of three cases challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices. Prior to joining the NYCLU, Karteron served as White House Associate Staff Secretary from 2009 to 2010. From 2007 to 2009, she was an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, where she litigated voting rights cases in the federal courts, including the Supreme Court.
New York just made a series of police reforms. Here s what will change
The state budget passed earlier this month includes a variety of new police reforms, including penalties for localities that haven t submitted reform plans and a mandatory certification process.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature reached a deal on the $212 billion state budget earlier this month.
And the deal includes the withholding of up to 50% of state and federal funds from localities that fail to produce a police reform plan under Cuomo s executive order asking local governments to review their forces after the death of George Floyd.