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A move by the Civilian Complaint Review Board to require information about confidential informants’ involvement in or knowledge of police misconduct is dangerous, police union officials told the Daily News.
The police watchdog agency has charged the officers with policy violations.
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The NYPD has declined to discipline a high-ranking cop for the arrest of a Black Starbucks barista on her way home from work past curfew during the 2020 George Floyd protests, despite a police watchdog’s determination he was “improperly forceful,” the Daily News has learned.
New numbers released Wednesday show the Civilian Complaint Review Board substantiated allegations of police misconduct in just 27% of the total number of complaints arising from the 2020 racial-justice protests in New York City.
Police union attorneys for Officer Wayne Isaacs had asked the commissioner to halt disciplinary proceedings. Commissioner Sewell rejected that request in a letter received by the city’s police watchdog.