New York police choke hold complaints 'not punished'

New York police choke hold complaints 'not punished'

New York police choke hold complaints 'not punished'

 Examination of the case of the NYPD does Chokehold found that the discipline recommended by the Commission received complaints often not followed.

In seven of 10 cases, prosecutors or police to impose a sanction that is less than the officers who prey keys are used, which is prohibited.

The report is a response to the death of Eric Garner, who died after being placed in Chokehold by police.

A practice that is prohibited by the New York City Police Department.

The first report, published in the Office of the Superintendent of Police, established a general alarm monitoring is a preliminary investigation to determine the width of the complaint and how prevalent Chokehold officers have been disciplined is required.

The Death of Eric Garner will not be included in the audit.

Inspector Philip Eure called the report. "Dive into the case involving prohibited strategy to explore and demystify these complaints were resolved within".

Many of the discipline recommendations were ignored by former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly

Watchdog Civilian Complaint Review Board's (CCRB) investigate alleged official misconduct and recommended that the disciplinary authorities.

Since April 2013, the Audit Committee now is some cases. But police officials have the final say to discipline officers.

The report found CCRB has proved to claim 10, which occurred more than five years ago, and recommend disciplinary action to be taken against the officers involved in nine cases.

But in the case of seven police officers, prosecutors or police department's actions in the past, little or no discipline at all.

In the remaining three officers who died shortly before the final decision to get one was found not guilty by the CCRB processing units and one is still pending.

The report also noted that the agents used chokeholds - "If you grab the neck or traps or other contact with the neck or throat - is the first act of physical force in response to the resistance words like never before. to try to calm the situation. "

Recommends checking more transparent by the police department when it comes out of the recommendations of the disciplinary committee civilians. The committee also recommended to improve their own music to let the internal affairs of alleged misconduct by officers.