The NYC government, at the very least, is ultimately accountable for the acts of its police department. My NYS comment was a more wide-ranging shot at what hap

The NYC government, at the very least, is ultimately accountable for the acts of its police department. My NYS comment was a more wide-ranging shot at what happens to individual rights when one political party (red or blue) gets to call the shots. But if the NYPD is really "unaccountable" to the NYC government, well, that seems like a ripe situation for the Feds to step in because the local government has lost control. A PD which isn't accountable to its elected government isn't a PD; it's an armed gang.