So New York conducted an investigation on how appropriate the NYPD response was to legal, legitimate protests throughout May and June of this year. Surprising no one, they discovered that police exacerbated an alreadt tense situation an simply went out of their way to make matters worse.
Here is the full 115 page report. Some choice findings:
DOI’s investigation identified several deficiencies in the NYPD’s response to the Floyd protests that undermined public confidence in the NYPD’s discharge of its responsibility to protect the rights of citizens to engage in lawful protest.
Wow, what a revolutionary concept; the idea that law enforcement should protect and serve. Bullets points of the findings:
- The NYPD lacked a clearly defined strategy tailored to respond to the large-scale protests of police and policing
- The NYPD’s use of force and certain crowd control tactics to respond to the Floyd protests produced excessive enforcement that contributed to heightened tensions.
- Some policing decisions relied on intelligence without sufficient consideration of context or proportionality.
- The NYPD deployed officers who lacked sufficient, or sufficiently recent, training on policing protests.
- The NYPD lacked a centralized community affairs strategy for the Floyd protests.
- The NYPD lacked a sufficient data collection system to track relevant protest data.
The report reiterates several times what the responsibilities of the Police are stating, "When policing protests, NYPD’s responsibility is to facilitate individuals’ First Amendment rights to assemble and express themselves while
protecting protesters and public safety." It's. Their. Fucking. Job. And they failed considerably. The worst part of this 115 page report is that the DOI admitted to exercising restraint in their findings because of the number of still ongoing investigations of Police misdonduct in a mere 30 day period in New York.
America, you have a serious cop problem.
