In a victory for police-reform advocates and a sound defeat for police unions, city voters by a wide margin approved giving the Civilian Complaint Review Board increased powers to investigate and prosecute allegations of NYPD officer misconduct.
Although police unions poured money into their effort to defeat it, the ballot measure—one of a cluster of five proposals, all of them approved by significant majorities—passed by a three-to-one margin citywide.
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