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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is speeding to construct one final piece of her legacy of … accelerating the exodus from the NYPD.
Yes, she’s decided to move a invoice that can give the Civilian Complaint Review Board direct entry to the servers storing police bodycam footage as a result of … why, precisely?
She says the purpose is to hurry up investigations into alleged police misconduct and brutality claims, however her invoice doesn’t even give the CCRB added assets to wade via the huge database.
Plus, of course, the NYPD is well essentially the most skilled big-city police power within the nation, fairly presumably on the earth, with extraordinarily low charges of utilizing power, not to mention drawing a gun.
And city cops are overseen not simply by the CCRB however by varied court-appointed screens, Internal Affairs and (if it involves that) state and federal prosecutors.
So the place is the need for instant CCRB entry to the footage?
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If Adams is peeved at how long the division takes to adjust to the board’s requests (the division says it averages simply eight days), possibly she ought to see about including some NYPD funding to hurry issues up: The easy truth is that sorting via mountains of video information information after which vetting the footage to adjust to a host of privateness legal guidelines takes time.
Indeed, the legal points alone (that is a first-in-the-nation initiative) will probably tie up Adams’ “legacy” measure for months or years, to not point out the time to coach CCRB workers in accessing the information.
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And why would the CCRB need real-time entry to all officers’ footage, anyway? It’s solely alleged to open investigations in response to precise misconduct complaints, not go on fishing expeditions.
The affect on police morale is apparent (a minimum of, to anybody who isn’t a council progressive): As PBA President Patrick Hendry put it: “Who wants to work in a system where people who don’t value or understand your work are given direct, real-time access to second-guess your every move?”
This isn’t Adams’ first anti-policing rodeo: Back in 2023, she rammed via the How Many Stops Act into law (over Mayor Eric Adams’ veto), dumping hours of senseless paperwork on each officer who dares to really discuss to the public within the course of his or her duties.
The division has solely lately gotten recruitment to exceed the tempo of cop retirements and resignations, and the appearance of the Mamdani mayoralty is already more likely to push more officers out the door — a loss of irreplaceable expertise.
Adrienne Adams’ legacy, in short, can be a Police Department much less in a position to do its job of protecting New Yorkers protected; a very unusual source of pleasure, certainly.
