The New York Police Department has pledged to end its practice of not sharing videos in ongoing investigations with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Eric Umansky reports for ProPublica. The Civilian Complaint Review Board, which is charged with investigating police misconduct in New York City, has often been hamstrung in its ability to move ahead on the most serious cases because the NYPD refused to share footage of shootings and other serious incidents.
The new agreement between the NYPD and CCRB, which was signed Dec. 5, stipulates that the Police Department will hand over footage and other records within 90 days of a request. The deal is essentially a good faith agreement between the two agencies. It does not have the force of law or lay out penalties. The deal also does not apply to the public disclosure of footage, an area in which the NYPD has lagged. Through the first week of December, there were 28 shootings of civilians this year by New York City officers. The CCRB will now be able to get footage from all of them 90 days after the agreement was signed.
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