Chair of NYC police watchdog agency resigns after criticizing NYPD in misconduct case
The interim chair of the city’s police watchdog agency announced her resignation on Monday, after she criticized the NYPD and pressed for more power for the watchdog agency.
Mayor Eric Adams appointed Arva Rice to chair the Civilian Complaint Review Board in February 2022. But following her criticism of the police department over its handling of evidence around a fatal police shooting, Adams' office asked for her resignation earlier this year, “I always addressed every issue brought before me, as both a Board member and as Interim Chair, with a fair and balanced approach, whether it met with criticism or applause,” she wrote in her resignation letter., a 32-year-old who was shot and killed by police in his apartment in 2019. The case resulted in a protracted battle between the CCRB and NYPD, which took a year and a half to turn over key evidence in the case.
“We … hope it will ensure officers who commit misconduct cannot avoid discipline due to a technicality,” Rice said of the agreement at the time. The final say on officer discipline sits with the NYPD, a policy that Rice has argued against. The police commissioner followed the review board's recommendations on officer discipline“The Adams administration has engaged in a death-by-a-thousand-cuts campaign to neutralize the checks and balances in place that hold the NYPD to account,” the nonprofit Legal Aid Society said on Monday in a statement on Rice's resignation.
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