New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board exposed as accomplice of NYPD
More than nine months after New York City protests in the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota met with a brutal police response, including scores of injuries and mass arrests, ProPublica reports that the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has released no reports from investigations into the hundreds of complaints lodged over police abuse in connection with those demonstrations and later ones in the course of the year.
The investigative journalism project begins its report on the lack of response this week by citing the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) rampage against peaceful protesters in the Bronx on June 4, reported at that time by the WSWS.
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Long Island’s two county police departments are among a small minority of America’s largest local law-enforcement agencies that have spurned broad use of body-worn cameras, even as deadly encounters between officers and unarmed Black people increased calls for greater police transparency and accountability.
A Newsday survey of the nation’s 50 largest law-enforcement agencies found just three that had not equipped large numbers of officers with body cameras before 2020: The Nassau and Suffolk police departments and the Portland Police Bureau, in Oregon.
Deployment of body cameras as standard police equipment extends from the nation’s largest force, the 35,000-member New York Police Department, to smaller agencies, including Freeport’s 100-officer department. It has occurred as law-enforcement authorities and the public have come to rely on video recordings to document crimes and police conduct.
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THE ISSUE:
A court can’t seem to get a federal detention center to vaccinate people in its care.
THE STAKES:
A little less than 9 percent of Americans have been infected with the coronavirus. In the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility where immigrants are detained, however, the infection rate is more than 25 percent.
Yet even with a court order, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can’t seem to get vaccines to detainees most likely to become gravely ill and die should they contract COVID-19.
For some reason, this problem appears to be ICE’s alone. Prison advocates say no other federal agency is having trouble getting vaccines for incarcerated people. Which raises the question of whether ICE’s problem is logistical or institutional in an agency that came to be the face of former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant bigotry and inhumane policies.
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