In talking about how the Federal legislation outlawing the use of chokeholds by cops that was introduced April 27 by Congressman Hakeem Jeffries would affect NYPD officers in the unlikely event that it made it through a Republican-dominated Congress, one cop—who spoke to us conditioned on anonymity—offered some interesting insights.
“It doesn’t change too much from a Police Department standpoint,” he told us two days later, because of the internal ban on chokeholds, which already acts as a deterrent, but only up to a point. The officer noted that the NYPD also prohibits officers from shooting at a moving car, “but most cops would do that if it would save their life or the life of another officer.”
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