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Albany Bills to Remove Police Commissioner's Final Disciplinary Say

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 3/18/21

Among the notable police-reform efforts taking shape at the NYPD are the opening up of the department’s discipline process, which has long been criticized as unnecessarily opaque. 

They include a discipline matrix and, following a court scuffle, the recent publication on the NYPD’s website of officers’ disciplinary records. And a recent memorandum of understanding between the Civilian Complaint Review Board and Commissioner Dermot Shea submits that both will stick to the matrix when it comes to imposing penalties.  

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