NYPD is as much a problem now as it was years ago. Blue wall of silence. Refusal to purge department of those who abuse.

And they’re going after De Blasio for mere mention of accountability, while Cuomo plays into this game too.

There needs to be widespread and systematic reform.

For starters, every fucking department in the nation that gives a presser about protest arrests needs to be asked how many cops were arrested for excessive force in said protests (in places where documented cases have occurred within the past week - to set a limit). Given that the answer is virtually none of those have been held accountable in any fashion, that’s why these protests continue. The cops aren’t going to get ahead of the protests because they keep revealing the protesters are right. The cops are out of control and don’t give a shit about persons of color and that they’ll go full fascist at the behest of the Trumpists and white nationalists in their midst.

Back in 2018, Buzzfeed published NYPD disciplinary records, and it found the same people accused of abuse over and over, and they never got fired or disciplined.

319 officers were found to have engaged in conduct worth firing for, but they still have their jobs.

At least 250 employees faced accusations of using excessive force, threatening someone, getting into a fight, or firing their gun unnecessarily. Some faced only minor penalties. School safety agents Rufus Felder, Lydia Goodwin, and Timothy Wheeler, for example, each lost five vacation days after using excessive force against students. After striking someone on the head and threatening to kill two people, Detective Denise Rinaldi lost 20 vacation days.

NYPD rules say that, barring exceptional circumstances, officers who lie about a “material matter” must lose their jobs. But of the more than 100 employees in these files who were accused of lying on official reports, under oath, or during an internal affairs investigation, only a handful were fired, while others were docked anywhere from a few days to a month of vacation time. Officer Alexis Valdez, for example, lost 30 vacation days when he was found to have given false testimony to a grand jury.

Of at least two dozen officers accused of conducting illegal searches, three-quarters suffered only a verbal reprimand, the loss of a few vacation days, or a similar penalty. Officer Erlene Wiltshire lost five vacation days after the department found she conducted a strip search without her supervisor’s approval or a reasonable suspicion that the individual had concealed evidence under her clothes.

The department found at least 16 employees falsified records to collect overtime. Sgt. Ruben Duque, for example, submitted false overtime claims 93 times. He was put on probation, forfeited 30 vacation days, and ordered to pay back $6,000. Duque remains on the force today and collected over $50,000 in overtime pay in 2017, according to the latest New York City payroll data.

The process is broken, the Unions hold tremendous sway, even in political elections, and prosecutors need them to go after criminals (who aren’t wearing blue).