NYPD watchdog agency could soon try own cases
Associated Press - February 18, 2010 8:35 PM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - Attorneys for New York City's police watchdog agency could soon begin prosecuting cases stemming from complaints it receives and investigates.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Civilian Complaint Review Board Chair Ernest F. Hart announced an agreement Thursday to launch a pilot project to allow some CCRB cases to be tried by the independent agency's own attorneys.
The move would hand some of the NYPD's control over how it handles allegations of officer misconduct to an agency that has historically been considered ineffectual.
All of 2009's 130 administrative trials against police officers were prosecuted by NYPD attorneys.
Twenty of those cases originated as CCRB complaints. The agency's attorneys sometimes served as co-counsel.
The board received more than 7,600 complaints in 2009.
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