QUESTION
Does the NYPD Review Procedures After Identifying a Pattern of Wrongful Convictions?
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Council Member Salaam inquires about the NYPD's procedure for conducting broader review of cases after identifying wrongful convictions, particularly focusing on instances involving specific officer misconduct or flawed investigative methods. The NYPD elaborates on their various mechanisms for internal oversight, including coordination with district attorney's offices and wrongful conviction units, to scrutinize past convictions and ensure accountability within the department.
Yusef Salaam
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I wanna ask first, after patterns of lawful convictions are identified, for example, through Pacific types of officer misconduct of faulty investigative pros procedures.
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Does the NYPD conduct broader reviews of investigations conducted using similar practices or conducted by particular officers.
0:17:21
For example, following the identification miss identification of misconduct by detective Lewis Carello, and the subsequent reversal of convictions arising from cases he investigated.
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Did the NYPD conduct any review of the procedures and practices in place at the time?
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That enabled such misconduct to go undetected and have there been any changes to mechanisms for internal oversight of detective investigations that have since been put in place.
Joseph Kenny
0:17:57
So detective Carpella, those incidents took place years ago and then came to light.
0:18:02
He was already retired at that time.
0:18:06
The mechanism we have in place right if there is we we are by far the most scrutinized police department in the country between internal affairs, the force investigation division, professional standards, federal monitors, civilian advocates.
0:18:21
We are constantly being scrutinized and being analyzed for misconduct.
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And the majority of them is conduct that is discovered within the NYPD as far as testimony comes is by us.
0:18:35
We we find that ourselves.
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Our internal affairs bureau sometimes went while working with the district attorney's offices who have a, you know, civilian complaint, unit public public integrity unit, law enforcement accountability units, Judges also get involved sometimes where giggly o letters are issued to certain offices.
0:18:56
We will then take all that information and go back and look working with additional attorney's office and they're wrongful conviction units to look at all their previous cases that resulted in a conviction because Like I said early, we we want to get this right.
0:19:12
And, you know, sometimes where they smoke, there's fire, and we will look at that particular office's conviction rate and we will speak to the district attorneys that handle those cases as well.