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Video: Teenager Beaten By Swarm Of NYPD Officers

3 months agoUnited States / New York : Gothamist

A teenager who was beaten by police during a stop outside the Flushing YMCA is taking his case to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. On January 8th, a bystander took this video of 19-year-old Robert Jackson being struck and kicked by a group of five police officers while he screams in pain. [ more › ]

Ray Kelly Absolves NYPD Detective Found To Have Used "Gratuitous" Force By CCRB

4 months agoUnited States / New York : Gothamist

Despite being granted prosecutorial power last year, the Civilian Complaint Review Board's authority is still derived from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. Kelly recently exercised that authority by tossing aside the CCRB's ruling that an NYPD detective used excessive force against a suspect on camera. Show More Summary

New Yorkers Get More Leverage To Go After Bad Cops, But Will They Use It?

6 months agoUnited States / New York : Gothamist

This morning the Civilian Complaint Review Board held a public hearing regarding the rules proposed this spring that give it the power, for the first time, to discipline and prosecute NYPD officers accused of wrongdoing. While the expansion...Show More Summary

The Toothless Apparatus That Investigates NYC's Cops

9 months agoSociety & Culture : The Awl

What's it like working for the Civilian Complaint Review Board of New York City, which investigates complaints against the NYPD? Not so fulfilling, it turns out, as one of its investigators confesses. I often saw a deliberate short-­circuiting...Show More Summary

Stop And Frisk Up Last Year, But Formal Complaints Down (Again)

9 months agoUnited States / New York : Gothamist

For the second year in a row, the NYPD has stopped, questioned, and (sometimes) frisked more people than ever on the streets of NYC, while the number of people who file formal complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board [CCRB] has gone down. Show More Summary

Memo to NYPD: Please Don’t Judo-Chop the Judge

11 months agoIndustries / Law : Above the Law

A New York City police officer allegedly chose the wrong bystander to pick on during a street fight… Continue reading » Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook. Tags: Civilian Complaint Review Board, Internal Affairs...Show More Summary

New CCRB Gets Funding To Crack Down On Police Misconduct

last yearUnited States / New York : Gothamist

The city has allocated $1.6 million to fund the revamped Civilian Complaint Review Board, which has traditionally been a toothless, opaque system that was easily dismissed by the NYPD, but will now have the power to prosecute police officers accused of wrongdoing. Show More Summary

"I kissed her breasts and nipples, as there was no place for my face to go," Salt Lake City PD Re-Evaluates Vice in Wake of Report

last yearNews : Reason

Salt Lake City’s Police Department has disbanded its vice unit after a Civilian Complaint Review Board (sometimes they work!) report questioned the department’s tactics in combating prostitution and illegal massage parlors, citing violations of the Fourth Amendment and inadequate supervision. Show More Summary

Union Ad Stresses the Stress Officers Deal With

last yearUnited States / New York : City Room

A police union ad blasts the department's management; a sister follows a slain brother into the Corrections Department; and new rules for the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Len Levitt: Dead Board Awakening?

last yearUnited States / New York : Huffington Post: New York Blog

The Civilian Complaint Review Board [CCRB] has never amounted to much. Its work involves the most minor police misconduct. At best, its value is symbolic...

Good News From New York

last yearNews : The Agitator

NYPD’s civilian review board will finally get some teeth. The civilian board that reviews complaints of NYPD misconduct will get the power to prosecute those allegations in departmental trials — except in certain cases, officials said Tuesday. Currently, the Civilian Complaint Review Board investigates complaints it receives, but refers substantiated cases to the NYPD for [...]

Fire Safety for Passover Traditions

last yearUnited States / New York : City Room

One Police Plaza: Fire safety for Passover; no word on a grand jury on a police shooting; and seeking a new executive director for the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

CCRB Gets Power To Actually Prosecute NYPD Officers

last yearUnited States / New York : Gothamist

The Civilian Complaint Review Board [CCRB] has been given the power to prosecute NYPD officers suspected of wrongdoing, according to an agreement reached by the City Council, the Mayor, and the NYPD Commissioner. The change has been described as a "milestone in the history of civilian police oversight in New York City," in the words of Daniel D. Show More Summary

Independent Agency to Take Over Prosecution of NYPD Misconduct Cases

last yearUnited States / New York : Daily Intel

After a two-year pilot program where the Civilian Complaint Review Board's independent attorneys prosecuted a small number of non-criminal cases involving alleged police misconduct in the NYPD ranks, the agency will now for the first time investigate, hear misconduct claims, prosecute, and levy punishments. Previously, the CCRB reviewed misconduct allegations ... More »

More Figures From the Police Watchdog

2 years agoUnited States / New York : City Room

The Civilian Complaint Review Board released full-year figures on complaints against police officers, to little notice.

Fewer People Unhappy With NYC Police

2 years agoUnited States / New York : Daily Intel

We might not be able to get rid of the snow quickly, but New York City is fairing well by one measure: The Civilian Complaint Review Board reported there were fewer complaints about police behavior in the past six months than in any other six-month period since 2005. Show More Summary

Three Jobs Are Open, and One Post Is Filled

3 years agoUnited States / New York : City Room

One Police Plaza: Openings in the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and a surprise choice to fill one at the F.B.I.

Intern With CCRB Busted With Gun, Pot

3 years agoUnited States / New York : Gothamist

An unpaid summer intern with the Civilian Complaint Review Board [CCRB] was caught by cops with an illegal gun and a blunt in his apartment yesterday. Cops were called to the East New York apartment of 22-year-old intern Jeffrey Peralta after neighbors reported that there was an emotionally disturbed person inside. Show More Summary

Relief at Complaint Board, and Honors for 12 Who Died

3 years agoUnited States / New York : City Room

In 1 Police Plaza: money for the Civilian Complaint Review Board; recalling fallen officers; deciding that for now, the Police Department has enough officers on enough foreign soil.

More to Do, and Less to Do It With

3 years agoUnited States / New York : City Room

1 Police Plaza: The Civilian Complaint Review Board is cut to the "marrow"; reviewing a police chase that ended in death; and a suit at the Port Authority.

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