Mayor Eric Adams is trying to oust the interim chairwoman of the civilian oversight board tasked with investigating complaints against the NYPD, according to sources.
Adams’ close advisor Philips Banks asked Arva Rice to resign from her position at the head of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) sometime last week, sources with knowledge of the matter told The Post.
Rice, who was appointed to the board by Adams’ predecessor Bill de Blasio, was named interim chair by the current mayor in February 2022 and was believed to be on the path to a full appointment, the sources said.
But in recent weeks the chair has been outspoken about the effects of budget cuts on the board’s ability to do its job and publicly critical of the NYPD’s handling of the 2019 police shooting of a black man in his own home.
With Adams slashing budgets of city agencies left and right due to the swelling pricetag of the migrant crisis, CCRB also saw its coffers dip — and Rice was vocal about the true cost of the cuts.