A new complaint is aiming to eradicate the old ways of doing things within the notorious police enforcement that is the New York Police Department.
Via NYPost:
The NYPD has a chokehold problem, the Civilian Complaint Review Board claims in a shot-across-the-bow report ordered by the agency’s new president, civil-rights attorney Richard Emery.
The 120-page report, prepared in response to the July death of arrestee Eric Garner on Staten Island and obtained exclusively by The Post, amps up the board’s Mayor de Blasio-sanctioned transformation into an agency that will aggressively investigate cops.
Pitched as a “Vision Zero action plan,” a reference to the mayor’s Vision Zero plan to reduce traffic injuries and deaths, the report blasts the leaders of New York’s Finest for failing to discipline cops in all but the worst cases.
The report, to be released this week, also chastises the department for softening the definition of a chokehold in order to let bad cops off the hook. But for all its alarm over how “chokeholds persist and appear to be increasing,” the report’s own statistics tell a different story.
The report as a whole is urging better training for all cops and aggressive disciplining of “problem” officers. It is also calling for it to be a requirement that NYPD disciplinary judges oblige by the Patrol Guide definition of a chokehold as any pressure to the neck, regardless of whether breathing is obstructed.
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