Sentences with phrase «review police killings»

The proposal falls short of a request by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be appointed as a special prosecutor to review police killings of unarmed civilians.

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After the governor's proposals to elevate the threshold of adult criminality to 18 years and to create a special monitor to review cases where a grand jury decides not to indict a police officer for killing a potentially unarmed civilian failed to make headway in the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo rolled out a pair of executive orders.

It is the first time the AG has done this since an executive order in July that requires his office to begin independent reviews of certain categories of civilian killings by police officers and, if the evidence warrants, present the evidence to a special grand jury.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Thursday released its first report on his office's role in reviewing, investigating and prosecuting cases in which police kill unarmed civilians.

In his State of the State address in January, Cuomo announced plans to introduce an independent monitor, such as a retired judge to review police cases where an unarmed civilian is killed and the case is not presented to a grand jury.

Now, the leader of the Senate Democrats has a bill to create an «Office of Special Investigation» inside the Attorney Generals» office, to automatically review and possibly investigate police incidents where an unarmed citizen is killed.

Following the tragic 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo, an innocent and unarmed Bronx man, NYPD Commissioner Howard Safir named Katz to an advisory council for an up and down review of training procedures.

Mr. Skelos predicted that the final budget would also drop a proposal by the governor to create an independent monitor to review grand jury investigations into killings of unarmed civilians by police officers.

(Some have suggested that DAs are too close with local police departments to impartially review improper use of deadly force by police; at the time Schneiderman requested that Cuomo grant him the additional power in such cases, Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, had recently escaped an indictment.)

Now, the leader of the Senate Democrats has a bill to create an «Office of Special Investigation» inside the attorney generals» office, to automatically review and possibly investigate police incidents where an unarmed citizen is killed.