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It's a rule of thumb that roughly 10% of the NYPD receive 99% of the complaints and claims of excessive force. 90% of the NYPD is fine. The issue is that there
by cowmoo728 5y ago
It's a rule of thumb that roughly 10% of the NYPD receive 99% of the complaints and claims of excessive force. 90% of the NYPD is fine. The issue is that there is no meaningful oversight mechanism to correct the 9% that behave inappropriately sometimes, or the 1% that are serial offenders and are dangerous to the public. Other cops stay silent about it because there's nothing more dangerous to health and career than being a cop that rats out other cops. The civilian oversight board can't even look at records without the permission of the police.
Brief article about police complaints data:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new-york-police-department-allegations-complaints https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2020/aug/04/new...
Example of the ineffective oversight:
https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-car-hit-a-kid-on-halloween-then-i-learned-how-nypd-impunity-works https://www.propublica.org/article/my-family-saw-a-police-ca...