Legislators and supporters cut the Mayor of New York Eric Adams and called for changes as a result of the PROPBLICA investigation by a on A, A secret, problem police unit led by the mayor’s allies.
Propublica found that the mayor advocates the team on the response of the New York police department, despite the scheme of aggressive and often offensive police, which is indicated by the department officials. The officer killed a motorcyclist in the unit after twisting his police car. The team commander punched and pushed the driver into the head. And another commander threw a man into the car window after the man complained that he had been stopped for no apparent reason.
Two founders of the division near the mayor have their problem records.
One, the head of the department John Chel, once shot a man in the back, killing him. While Cel claimed that he fired by accident, the jury in a civil lawsuit determined that the shooting was intentional. The jury rewarded the family of men of $ 2.5 million. Chel did not respond to comment requests.
Another CRT leader, Kaz of the Dorgni, has repeatedly manifested the city agency for the supervision of the police, the Civil Council for Complaints, to do violation of the rules, including pointing to a gun into a motorcyclist and threatening to kill him. For this Daughtry has been leveled 10 days of rest. Daughtry did not respond to comment requests. Adams recently made him a deputy mayor on public safety.
State Senator Jessica Ramos said Propublica that “Cronyism’s dependence makes New York less safe.” She added: “People like Chele and Daughtry should never have trusted the authorities that they gave them – and would not be a serious mayor. If we had a professional police department and a real police officer, rot should be cut.”
Meanwhile, local civil rights organizations demanded that the community respond to the community response team. “It’s time to disassemble this unit,” the New York’s Civil Liberty said.
“The CRT is a dangerous unit, and the propublica report shows that it acts without accounting within the defense of the corrupt and violated mayor,” Latinojustice said. Police Commissioner Jessica Tish “must dissolve this unit.”
The community response team was launched in the early days of Adams administration. It was focused on the so -called quality of life, such as unlicensed motorcyclists in groups that Adams defined as priority. “Our mayor gave us a mandate to start playing the crime,” Chal on a local TV channel in 2023.
But the quiet can reduce the role of CPT. At a recent hearing of the City Council, the day, published by the story of Proopublica, told how it changes the NYPD approach to the quality of life that has long been the focus of CRT.
Tish said the Department departs from the use of centralized units such as CRT for these problems, and move instead of relying on local officers in precinct houses.
“Over the past few years, the NYPD’s quality execution has been headed by a unit called CRT,” Tish said. “We suggest creating a NYPD’s quality division so we can make the precinct commanders and resources they control responsible for complaints about the quality of life.”
Asked about the division and comments authorized at the recent press conference, Adams offered support for the team.
“CRT here,” said the mayor. “I support all my units. And if they don’t get up and do the job as they should do, those who will not be held accountable.”
Over the last two years of the New York, at least 200 complaints claimed that the improper use of CTC members, according to the records of the Civil Complaints received by Propublica. Another NYPD team with a similar size and mandate had approximately twice as much complaints.
Correct control of the CTC will almost certainly continue. One of the police supervision bodies, the NYPD Inspector General Office, falls into the unit. The observer posted report Last fall criticizes “lack of public transparency” CRT and “lack of clear rules”. The press -secretary said that the unit is still under investigation.
The role of the EPT was not the only reform related to the propublica report that quietly discussed in its recent testimony. The Commissioner also stated that NYPD ceased to drain the rules’ violation policies without considering evidence. PROPUBLICA investigated this practice last fall and found that Department ended in hundreds of cases allegedly violating the rules Just because he received a referral from civilian investigators within three months after the discipline.
The cases have already been investigated and substantiated by the Civil Council for Complaints and were sent to NYPD for disciplinary action. In one case, the officer punched a person in the groin, revealed the supervision agency. Another officer decided to the young man, and then the search and the search.
The NYPD press secretary said the department had already started treating such cases again.
