The City Council’s effort to refashion the NYPD is underway. Not satisfied with the de Blasio Administration’s reform efforts, members of the Council’s progressive wing have authored a dozen pieces of legislation that would extend authority that is now exclusively the NYPD’s to outside the department.
Included among the bills and a resolution is legislation that would dilute the Police Commissioner’s “exclusive authority” over officer discipline, end qualified immunity for officers and subject the Mayor’s pick for Commissioner to Council approval.
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