NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the City Council on Tuesday that she is taking two measures toward stronger discipline against officers who violate rules — including boosting penalties for misconduct that occurs during street stops.
At a hearing on the department’s proposed budget of $6.1 billion for the fiscal year that begins July 1, Tisch said most members of the force who violate department policy in relation to stopping individuals for questioning and frisks — including not turning on body-worn cameras — are disciplined with retraining.
“While I believe that retraining is an important piece of the disciplinary process for things that are unintentional, one-off mistakes, it is certainly not appropriate for repeated conduct or for intentional misconduct,” Tisch said at the hearing. “And what I saw was that too often or virtually all the time, for those types of things, the only discipline that we were giving out was retraining, and that makes our disciplinary system both not fair and not credible.”…