Mayor Adams has cut the Citizen Complaint Review Board’s budget by 3% — along with a number of other agencies — for the foreseeable future. Advocates say the reduction in funding could hinder the oversight agency’s ability to investigate police misconduct.
Criminal justice advocates say budget cuts could hamper the CCRB's oversight abilities.New York City’s new tough-on-crime mayor, Eric Adams, has cut the Citizen Complaint Review Board’s budget by 3% — along with a number of other city agencies — for the rest of this fiscal year and the foreseeable future, the police watchdog agency’s executive director, Jonathan Darche, said at a monthly board meeting late Wednesday.
The CCRB said the move was temporary, and that it could fill open positions by the end of this fiscal year and stay within its budget. But a reduction in funding and personnel going forward could hinder the oversight agency’s ability to wield a new slate of powers it recently acquired to investigate police misconduct, according to advocates and people within the agency.
“I’ve served in this role long enough and it’s time for someone else to take the helm,” Davie said, adding that he believed the CCRB had made “great strides” over the past six years. “These new powers of investigation are critical developments.” A spokesperson for the mayor, Jonah Allon, said the administration sent a letter to a wide range of city agencies, including the NYPD, notifying them of a need to cut their budgets by 3%. “The CCRB is not being singled out. It’s just one of the city agencies that is being covered under this new fiscal plan,” he said.
The CCRB has been slow to fill new investigator positions for the biased-based policing unit, according to sources within the agency. Last year, the standard concurrence rate for how often the NYPD accepted the agency’s decisions fell from 73% to 68%, according to Davie, while more serious complaints of misconduct prosecuted by the agency’s Administrative Prosecution Unit saw a concurrence rate of just 27% in 2021, compared to a pre-pandemic 32% in 2019 and 35% in 2018 according to city records.
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