Report Finds NYPD Ignored Recommendations in Multiple Chokehold Cases

The inspector general’s office at the NYPD released a report today going through several cases of officers putting individuals in chokeholds and only getting lightly disciplined. According to The New York Times, there were ten separate instances from 2009 to June 2014 in which NYPD officers used chokeholds, a practice banned by the department.

In those ten instances, the Civilian Complaint Review Board recommended certain disciplinary measured be taken against the officers in question. The NYPD made the determination each time that the recommendation was too harsh, and the officers faced little to no punishment.

(This report, by the way, does not include the NYPD investigation of the Eric Garner case, which has not completely concluded yet. The Garner case was the catalyst for the report.)

The report also found that in several of those instances, the officers in question were quick to use the chokehold; “the banned maneuver was the officer’s initial physical response to verbal resistance.”

You can read the full report here, on the New York Times website.

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