Agency Accuses Kelly of Misleading Comments
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In an escalating dispute over the police department’s discipline of officers accused of misconduct, an independent police oversight agency said the police commissioner has been mischaracterizing its cases.
A spokesman for the Civilian Complaint Review Board said yesterday that the police commissioner was “cherry-picking” individual cases and offering a biased defense against the agency’s accusations that the department had become lax in punishing misbehaving officers.
A spokesman for the police department, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, said the cases described by the commissioner were evidence that police are doing their jobs. He attributed a dip in the number of officers being punished to recently hired police lawyers with more experience.
