Those inclined—and count us among them—to believe the NYPD was too lenient in limiting to a five-day vacation loss the penalty for Police Officer James Frascatore tackling pro tennis player James Blake three years ago might want to ask the Civilian Complaint Review Board what made it deem a 10-day vacation rip to be an appropriate penalty.
The CCRB, after all, exists as a check on police misconduct of precisely this kind, and is disliked and distrusted by cops and their unions for playing that role. Considering that when the video emerged of Officer Franscatore’s takedown of a man standing unthreateningly outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was some expectation that his getting that rough, in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, might cost the cop his job, the CCRB did him a huge favor with its soft penalty recommendation.
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