Fewer civilian complaints were filed against city cops during the first half of 2010 than in any six-month period in the past five years, the Civilian Complaint Review Board said today.
From January 2010 through June 2010, there were 3,314 misconduct complaints, an 18 percent decrease from the 4,017 misconduct complaints filed in the same six-month period in 2009.
The complaints tallied for the first half of 2010 were the lowest totals for any six-month period since January 2005, when 3,308 complaints were made.
There were 12 percent fewer complaints stemming from “stop-and-frisk” encounters with cops in the first half of 2010, when 1,076 were logged, than in 2009, when 1,222 were filed.
About 30 percent of all CCRB complaints arise from “stop-and-frisk” encounters.
What’s more, allegations that were deemed to be “substantiated” were pursued by the NYPD far more frequently than in years past.
In the first half of 2010, the NYPD Department Advocate’s Office, the unit empowered to prosecute possible instances of police misconduct, closed out 105 cases previously substantiated by the CCRB that had been handed over to the department for potential disciplinary action. The department declined to pursue only seven of those cases, about a seven percent “declination” rate..
By comparison , there was a “declination rate” of 30 percent during the past three years.