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Budget constraints forcing closure of NYPD misconduct complaints without investigation
4:00:35
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Council Member Restler raises concerns about the high percentage (22.5%) of complaints closed without investigation due to budget constraints. Executive Director Darche provides details on the types of complaints that are closed without investigation, highlighting the impact of resource limitations on CCRB's operations.
- Nearly one in four complaints is closed without investigation due to budget constraints
- Darche lists specific types of complaints that are closed without investigation, including forcible removal to hospitals, threats, and property seizures
- Restler expresses disappointment in the Adams administration's approach to CCRB funding, describing it as 'starving' the agency of necessary resources
Lincoln Restler
4:00:35
The last thing I just want to ask is 22.5% of the complaints that were issued to the CCRB last year were closed without an investigation due to budget constraints.
4:00:47
So almost one out of four times that somebody's calling the CCRB, the investigation is just closed because you don't have the staff, which is not your fault, but it is your problem.
4:00:57
So how are we determining which of these complaints are getting closed unilaterally by the CCRB?
4:01:05
Are these excessive force complaints that are getting closed?
4:01:07
Are they what types of complaints are you how are you triaging in this very unfortunate situation?
4:01:12
And I I you know, we will push and do the best we can with chair Salam's leadership and others here in the council to try to get more resources for the CCRB.
4:01:20
But how are you determining which of these one in four complaints you are unilaterally closing without an investigation?
Dr. Mohammad Khalid
4:01:28
Yeah.
4:01:29
Go ahead, Joe.
4:01:29
Yeah.
Jonathan Darche
4:01:30
So the allegations that we if a complaint contains one of these allegations, we close it without an investigation.
4:01:41
Forcible removal to the hospital, threats, refusal to process a civilian complaint about a member of the NYPD and the underlying complaint is not a CCRB complaint, failure to provide right to know act cards, property seizures, refusal to provide name or shield, discourteous words or actions, and untruthful statements where that's the only allegation.
Lincoln Restler
4:02:07
Okay.
4:02:07
I just it's a sad day in New York City when an officer can be discourteous, when an officer can seize property inappropriately, when an officer can act in all kinds of ways that are against the law, and we don't have the and the Adams administration has starved the CCRB of the resources to even consider investigating the complaint.
4:02:26
It's just automatically unilaterally closed because you don't have the staff.
4:02:31
That to me is a serious problem.
4:02:33
The CCRB needs resources to hold the NYPD accountable to investigate officers and pursue wrongdoing with real teeth.
4:02:42
And I just what the Adams administration has done to really defang your agency and starve it of resources is disgraceful.