🧵5 things we know about police misconduct only because @MarylandOPD was bold enough to start tracking it. A THREAD ⬇️ 1/ There are special teams made up of 79 officers in the Baltimore police dept. that have collectively been investigated over 700x. The 15 supervisors have 260 investigations, an average of 17 per officer. This is supposedly a “reformed” unit after a huge corruption scandal.

5 things we know only bc @MarylandOPD was bold enough to start tracking police misconduct. 1/ There are special teams made up of 79 officers in the Baltimore police dept. that have collectively been investigated over 700x. The 15 supervisors have 260 investigations, an average of 17 per officer. This is supposedly a “reformed” unit after a huge corruption scandal.

A case for why we can't trust the police to police themselves. I spent 5yrs tracking NYPD misconduct. The NYPD just released their history of officer discipline. Here's a side by side comparison of what I found (summarized in @jangelooff 2019 article) & what the NYPD found: David Grieco has come up in 32 known lawsuits, at a cost to taxpayers of $343,252. Highlights include putting a minor in a chokehold, threatening to arrest an aspiring rapper if he didn't freestyle for him, & hauling 6yr old twins to a precinct. No NYPD Discipline.

In this witness piece, Chantel, a teacher from Mott Haven who attended the protest, recounted to us a harrowing scene. She described getting hit in the face with a baton, splitting her lip. "I remember hearing someone’s bone break. I never heard someone’s bone break before that.”

https://twitter.com/snorthfield45/status/1311350587796185088

She grabbed onto a stranger next to her "As Im holding him I can feel the impact of the batons hitting his back & that rly traumatized me. Here I am holding a Black man as he was being beat on his back. Every time he got hit, I felt the hit & now Im feeling his tears on my face."

New @hrw report details how Mayor Bill de Blasio @NYCMayor & NYPD Commissioner Shea @NYPDShea, knowingly & repeatedly told lies & spread false information to justify their abuse of peaceful protesters in Mott Haven on June 4th. Here's a breakdown: (1/16)
bit.ly/3cLN63R Before the protest even started, the fear mongering began. The 40th Pct Community Council warned about a "credible threat against the district" claiming the organizers have a reputation of planting bricks. There's no evidence of this at any of the group's 3 prior protests (2/16)

The officers we've seen in high-profile cases of police killings often have a history of violations that have been ignored. A few of the many examples: (1/9) 5 officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s case were part of another botched drug raid 1yr before. They obtained a sketchy warrant, used a battering ram to break into a house with children present & chased them down w/ guns drawn. No charges were filed (2/9) bit.ly/2GdJZWa

Incredibly excited to announce the release of CAPstat- the culmination of 4 yrs of hard work tracking and investigating police misconduct, resulting in a public database of misconduct allegations against NYPD officers! Check it out here: CAPstat.nyc CAPstat has searchable data on thousands of lawsuits against NYPD officers that have cost NYC taxpayers $50 million in 3.5 years. Search the lawsuit data here: capstat.nyc/lawsuits/