The Manhattan district attorney’s office
is locked in a battle with the New York Police Department over
electronic access to disciplinary records of officers and investigative
reports that prosecutors contend they need to catch bad arrests earlier
in criminal proceedings.
The level of
access to police records that prosecutors are seeking would
fundamentally change the flow of information between the police and
prosecutors in New York City, upending decades of practice and altering
the traditional roles of each institution.
The
district attorney’s push to obtain disciplinary reports for officers is
the latest front in an effort to break through the wall of secrecy
surrounding police discipline in New York City. Calls for those records
to be made public picked up momentum after the department refused to
release the misconduct records of Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who
placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during a July 2014 confrontation on Staten Island. (A judge later ordered a summary of the records be made public.)
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Source: The New York Times
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