The latest annual report from the Civilian Complaint Review Board
makes clear for the first time that the NYPD is challenging more and more cases and taking so long to do so — an average of almost nine months in the second half of last year — that scores of cases in which the agency already had
substantiated allegations against police officers are being bogged down in delays.
The appellant chose to
make very serious
allegations against West Face, maintain those
allegations in the face of substantial evidence refuting the
allegations, and in the end «utterly failed» to
substantiate any of the claims.