Sentences with phrase «police watchdog agency»

The Civilian Complaint Review Board received 4,487 complaints in 2017 — up 202 from the year before — an uptick in allegations following seven years of declining numbers, according to the police watchdog agency's 64 - page report.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board, the police watchdog agency investigating the misconduct claim against Pantaleo and others, is also seeking the minutes — not for public use but for private investigative reasons.

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City Council members criticized the New York Police Department for neglecting victims of sexual assault after a watchdog - agency found the department's Special Victims Division lacked resources and sufficient training.

Just days before he is set to retire, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows — the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

Just days before he is set to retire, police commissioner Bill Bratton unleashed a blistering attack Wednesday on the watchdog agency whose report concluded that Broken Windows, the key tenet of Bratton's policing strategy, was ineffective and led to racial disparity in police action.

Before joining the department in 2010, Ms. Finkle spent 11 years at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the watchdog agency that investigates police abuse, becoming the executive director in 2002.

Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.

And several days later, the federal consumer watchdog agency announced a «toolkit» designed to help public service employees — teachers, firefighters, police officers and others — understand their options and get started paying off their student loans.