NYPD Chief Of Department Jeffrey Maddrey Hit With Abuse Of Authority Charges By NYC Police Watchdog

Every day aver­age American cit­i­zens face these cor­rupt actors, and they com­plain if they are lucky to sur­vive the encounter with them. Their com­plaints usu­al­ly have to be made to the very same cor­rupt Agency, albeit anoth­er depart­ment cre­at­ed to give the illu­so­ry effect of trans­paren­cy and impar­tial­i­ty. Complaints are gen­er­al­ly ruled unfound­ed or unsubstantiated.
On the odd occa­sion that the evi­dence of wrong­do­ing is so over­whelm­ing that it can­not be ignored, the offend­er gets a slap on the wrist; as you will see in the case below that the vic­to­ry to the abused par­ty is a pyrrhic one.
New York City has a Civilian Complain Review Board (CCRB) that is man­dat­ed to inves­ti­gate abus­es by the 36,000-plus police depart­ment; some­how however,the cre­ators the body for­got to give the board pow­er to pun­ish offenders.
So the board­’s find­ings have to be sub­mit­ted back to the Police Commissioner for action. In case you are won­der­ing why American police offi­cers act with such impuni­ty, won­der no more; they act with impuni­ty because they have near blan­ket immunity.
There are those who believe that adding more offi­cers of col­or will change the behav­ior of police, but that is far from the case. In California, the LA Sheriff”s office is pop­u­lat­ed heav­i­ly with Hispanics, and that depart­ment is plagued with out­right crim­i­nal gangs oper­at­ing in that depart­ment under the col­or of law.
In Miami, Florida, the Miami police depart­ment is also heav­i­ly Cuban American, and that depart­ment is prob­a­bly one of the worst in the country.
The cops who mur­dered Tyre Nichols in Tennesee were all black, and so was Mister Nichols. In inci­dent after inci­dent, we see police of all races act­ing in ways more unlaw­ful and out­ra­geous than ordi­nary civil­ian criminals.
In almost all cas­es, there are oth­er offi­cers stand­ing around or engag­ing in crim­i­nal con­duct against civil­ian mem­bers of the pub­lic, yet no one inter­venes to stop the crim­i­nal conduct.
Where are the sup­posed good cops?
So the issue is not about just the race or col­or of police these days. The very con­struct of polic­ing in the United States is so bad­ly bro­ken that it can­not be repaired; it has to be dis­man­tled and reimag­ined. They are not about to do that, so the pub­lic will con­tin­ue to be at the mer­cy of these undis­ci­plined state actors. (mb)

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By Thomas Tracy New York Daily News.

Police watch­dogs hit the NYPD’s high­est-rank­ing uni­formed offi­cer with an abuse of author­i­ty charge for inter­ven­ing in the deten­tion of a retired cop accused of threat­en­ing a group of teens with a gun.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board said Saturday it had sub­stan­ti­at­ed the charge against NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey. Under CCRB guide­lines, “sub­stan­ti­at­ed” means the board believes there is “suf­fi­cient cred­i­ble evi­dence” that Maddrey “com­mit­ted the alleged act with­out legal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. It’s now up to Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell to deter­mine Maddrey’s penal­ty. If Sewell impos­es a penal­ty, Maddrey could refuse to accept it, trig­ger­ing a dis­ci­pli­nary hear­ing, offi­cials said.

Maddrey was accused of show­ing up at the 73^rd Precinct sta­tion­house on Nov. 24, 2021 fol­low­ing a clash between retired NYPD Officer Krythoff Forrester and three teens in Brownsville.
Police had tak­en Forrester into cus­tody after the teens stat­ed he had chased them with a gun after they struck a secu­ri­ty cam­era at his family’s store­front busi­ness with a bas­ket­ball. Forrester used to work with Maddrey and began drop­ping his name to arrest­ing offi­cers, accord­ing to The City, which first report­ed the charges. A short time lat­er, Maddrey, who was chief of the NYPD’s Community Affairs Division at the time, and Brooklyn North Deputy Chief Scott Henderson showed up at the sta­tion­house. Within a few hours, Forrester was let go with­out charges. Forrester was then sent home, offi­cials said.

An NYPD spokesman said at the time that Maddrey ordered a full inves­ti­ga­tion, but Forrester was let go after the teens’ alle­ga­tions couldn’t be con­firmed. The department’s Internal Affairs Bureau also inves­ti­gat­ed alle­ga­tions that Maddrey ordered Forrester cut loose, but found no wrong­do­ing. When asked about the inci­dent in March, Mayor Adams backed Maddrey’s inter­ven­tion, claim­ing Maddrey had “han­dled it appro­pri­ate­ly.” The CCRB deci­sion coun­ters the NYPD probe. “After care­ful­ly review­ing the evi­dence, the full board delib­er­at­ed this case and sub­stan­ti­at­ed mis­con­duct against Chief Maddrey,” Arva Rice, inter­im chair of the CCRB said in a state­ment Saturday. Working off the NYPD’s dis­ci­pli­nary matrix, which out­lines penal­ties for accused abus­es, the CCRB rec­om­mend­ed Maddrey receive a com­mand dis­ci­pline, which comes with a max­i­mum loss of 10 vaca­tion days, CCRB offi­cials said. MK Kaishian, the attor­ney rep­re­sent­ing the three teens, called for Maddrey’s resignation.

She said Maddrey “lever­aged his pow­er to spring a for­mer col­league who had ter­ror­ized chil­dren with a gun, but he allowed those same chil­dren to be vil­i­fied and dis­cred­it­ed in the media by his allies in the after­math of his mis­con­duct.” “It is essen­tial that oth­er con­crete steps are tak­en to address Chief Maddrey’s con­duct, which has been defend­ed by police and oth­er influ­en­tial actors in NYC pre­cise­ly because selec­tive enforce­ment is a fea­ture of a sys­tem that serves the pow­er­ful at the expense of all oth­ers,” Kaishian said. Maddrey ran afoul of police depart­ment rules in 2017, when he was docked 45 vaca­tion days for fail­ing to report an inci­dent in a Queens park where he waved off respond­ing offi­cers who saw an alleged lover point a gun at him. That case was brought by inter­nal NYPD inves­ti­ga­tors, with­out CCRB involvement.

Aside from the case involv­ing the Brownsville teens, Maddrey has been inves­ti­gat­ed four times by the CCRB dur­ing his decades-long police career, city records show. All four cas­es involved accu­sa­tions of abuse of force. None of the cas­es were sub­stan­ti­at­ed. Emails to both Maddrey and the NYPD for com­ment were not imme­di­ate­ly returned. Since being made police com­mis­sion­er last year, Sewell has reduced, set aside or ignored hun­dreds of police mis­con­duct penal­ties rec­om­mend­ed by the Civilian Complaint Review Board, accord­ing to crim­i­nal jus­tice advo­cates and a study con­duct­ed by the Legal Aid Society. In a mes­sage to police offi­cers in December, Sewell said she has reject­ed CCRB dis­ci­pline rec­om­men­da­tions more often than oth­er recent police com­mis­sion­ers, claim­ing that some of the police watch­dog group’s rul­ings were “man­i­fest­ly unfair” to officers.