Fewer Brutality Complaints Against 71st Precinct
The Civilian Review Complaint Board (CCRB), the New York City agency that oversees complaints of police brutality, launched a new online mapping feature that allows NYers to see the number of complaints filed against the police, per week and by type. The 71st Precinct scores relatively well, with fewer complaints than most neighboring precincts.
From The Gothamist:
Complaint Activity Maps (or CAM) went live today, and breaks down the data in a number of ways: by complaint type, precinct and by officer.
The system is part of a pivot toward transparency by the CCRB’s newly appointed chairman Richard Emery. Emery was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in July and the former civil rights lawyer has since made some bold moves as head of the agency. The CCRB’s executive director, Tracy Catapano-Fox, was fired in September and in October, Emery released a report that took a hard look at how the CCRB investigated chokehold cases.
Soon after the new online database was announced by the CCRB, the de Blasio administration announced that CCRB complaints have decreased 26 percent in the second half of 2014, and said in a statement that the decrease is a result of administration efforts to reform NYPD policies.
A CCRB investigator, who asked to remain anonymous because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, said that while sharing the CCRB’s data sharing is a step in the right direction, he sees no “real utility in it.”
“I think it’s good to promote transparency within the agency and an ability to be outside of the agency looking in,” he said. “But aggregating all the data, it is not going to tell us what we don’t already know. For example, that the 75th precinct has the most complaints.”
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easy to play with statistics
what has the world come to when in a country like the USA, in 2014 we have to talk of such things as “fewer brutality complaints”
one brutality case is one too many. I don’t care about brutality complaints statistics. This report is timed to first certain people in city administration’s agenda.