Misconduct complaints against New York City police decreased by 18% in the first half of 2010 compared with the first six months of the previous year, according to a report released by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday.
Police Complaints Drop
Misconduct complaints against New York City police decreased by 18% in the first half of 2010 compared with the first six months of the previous year, according to a report released by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday.
From January through June 2010, the CCRB received 3,314 complaints from the public against the NYPD compared with 4,017 for the first half of 2009. The complaints were the lowest for any six-month period since the first six months of 2005.
“I think the results speak for themselves,” said Paul Browne, the NYPD’s spokesman.
The number of complaints by people whom the police stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked were down 12% to 1,076, compared with the first half of 2009, when there were 1,222.
But stop, question and frisk complaints as a percentage of the total number of complaints rose to 32% for the first half of 2010, up from 30% a year earlier. In the first six months of 2010, the police department made 318,702 such stops, or just over 2% more than the 311,646 its officers conducted in the same time frame of 2009. The policy has been criticized because more than 90% of those stopped by police, historically, haven’t been charged with any wrongdoing.
Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said, “We remain very concerned about the large number of stop and frisk complaints to the CCRB.”
The nine precincts where there were 90 or more complaints related to stop, question and frisk were registered by people from the neighborhoods of East New York, Flatbush, Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant, all in Brooklyn, Mott Haven, High Bridge, Fordham Heights and Edenwald in the Bronx and St. George in Staten Island.
were the cops actually out potrolling?
I love the illustrated pic. I have never seen the parking spaces so empty.
ceo
what about what happened at Apple Bank yesterday.
eli f
in order to leave a complaint you get harassed and like 10 calls trying to get you drop it
they make it harder and harder to leave one yes the numbers will go down
oiss vorff
TO POST # 3 yr right , people dont care any more , they know nothing will be done , people just give up ,, our only voice is here on crown hights .info thanks benyomin ,, looking 4ward to yr lecaim .. lol
keep up the good work , in this controled hood
Yeah right
This country is fast losing it’s democracy and system of checks & balances. It’s common for ‘authorities’ to edit statistical information and dissuade the average citizen from publicizing anything counter-productive to their interests. New York is taking lessons from Communist Russia and World War Two Europe.. What will the outcome be?
smartie teen
if you people want to complain, dont complain on ch.info bc thats not going to get us anywhere.
complain to someone who will listen and make a difference.