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16 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
SCOOP: After nearly 2 years of public records battle with @Gothamist/@WNYC, Queens prosecutors partially release their secret database on NYPD cops with criminal convictions + court findings of dubious testimony:
gothamist.com/news/queens-pr…
This disclosure is one of the biggest by city prosecutors thus far in response to our Freedom of Information Law appeals for DA data on NYPD misconduct. One officer pled guilty to DWI, another to harassment. Both stayed on the force:
Most of the docs concern judicial findings that officers’ testimony is not believable. For example, in a gun case, one detective said a man admitted to having a gun and signing a search consent form. His colleague couldn’t“remember” this. The judge tossed the gun evidence.
We’ve been requesting these kinds of records from NYC DAs since 2019, and have now gotten partial releases from all of them—including a smaller one from Queens two years ago. This is thanks to our FOIL appeals attorney @gideonoliver
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17 Feb
NEW: For months, New Yorkers have awaited a flood of NYPD misconduct records, but so far they’ve only got data on civilian complaints. We obtained hundreds of secret NYPD misconduct findings + are making them public here:
gothamist.com/news/staten-is…
2/ The 800+ findings show relatively light penalties, like lost vacation days, routinely handed down even for the NYPD’s most consequential violations—false statements, excessive force, DWIs etc. (@lucapowellCUNY led the data analysis here) Image
3/ We extracted the findings manually by pouring through 4K FOIL documents from the Staten Island DA’s office, which for some reason didn’t redact these findings 🤷‍♂️ The data is thus skewed towards Staten Island officers + represents a small slice of the 36K uniformed NYPD force.
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29 Jan
New: Last year, NY’s DA association blocked the roll out of a commission to investigate prosecutorial misconduct. Now Brooklyn Assemblyman @NNickPerry is pushing for a vote on it again:
gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-…
The defense bar has long criticized the courts’ ability to rein in ADA misconduct. An ex Suffolk county prosecutor recently had his law license suspended for just 2 years despite working on two murder cases in which key evidence was withheld.
newsday.com/long-island/ku…
And District Attorney’s Offices themselves have been willing to keep and even promote employees despite egregious violations that result in convictions being vacated. Queens under Richard Brown is a prime example:
gothamist.com/news/top-queen…
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19 Nov 20
Over the last year, we've investigated claims in secret tapes that cops in Mount Vernon, NY allied with favored drug dealers—while assaulting, robbing or framing others. Now, several Black residents want their convictions tossed. Here are their stories:
gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
2/ Many of the allegations in the tapes and from residents involve a narcotics detective, who has racked up over 500 arrests in his career. For years, civilians filed complaints against him resulting in little to no discipline:
gothamist.com/news/corruptio…
3/ A whistleblower cop secretly-recorded his colleagues making more allegations about this detective. They claimed that he assaulted residents in handcuffs + pushed other cops to frame people. When the whistleblower lost faith in the DA—he gave them to us
gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
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15 Sep 20
STARTING NOW: Police unions are in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals continuing to fight NYC's planned release of police misconduct records. In June, Albany voted to repeal a longstanding ban on the release of these records, prompting this months-long court saga...
2/ The city got a favorable decision from the district court last month, which the unions chose to appeal. Let's see if this court tinkers with the parameters set in that preliminary decision. More context here from a colleague:
gothamist.com/news/federal-j…
3/ We have a missing judge... hence the awkward banter among the parties on the call.
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1 Sep 20
NEW: In secret recordings, cops in Mount Vernon, NY describe assaults of civilians in cells + illegal strip searches. Residents gave us video of the accused cops conducting humiliating strip searches in an apartment—breaking police rules 👇[CW: graphic]
gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
2/ The accused officers worked for years in Mount Vernon’s narcotics unit + are still active. Some have been accused of sexual violence +brutality multiple times. Here’s a recording of a cop describing his colleague assaulting an elderly man in handcuffs. His sergeant denies this
3/ Here’s another officer alleging that he witnessed the same colleague assaulting a civilian in a cell at the police station. He claims when he reported the colleague for abuse, police supervisors refused to investigate + suggested he transfer units:
Read 17 tweets
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24 Aug 20
BREAKING: New docs reveal 100s of internal NYPD findings of false statements, improper invoicing of cash/drugs + other misconduct. 1 cop, accused of drug planting on body-camera before, had 2 findings of improperly documenting drug seizures the same year: gothamist.com/news/staten-is…
2/ These are different from civilian complaint records released by @propublica and @NYCLU. They describe internal NYPD investigations + came from @statenislandda due to work by @gideonoliver as part of a FOIL fight we've been leading for months
gothamist.com/news/new-york-…
3/ Officer Kyle Erickson, for example, faced light NYPD discipline twice for invoice discrepancies following two separate drug seizures. The same year he was seen twice on body-cameras appearing to plant marijuana on suspects @sydneyp1234
gothamist.com/news/staten-is…
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