While Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado’s recommendation that Officer Daniel Pantaleo be fired for using a department-banned chokehold would “freeze” the NYPD, it may have the opposite effect by requiring Police Commissioner James O’Neill to honor a ban that his two immediate predecessors often disregarded.
Over the past decade, first Ray Kelly and then Bill Bratton—on whose watch the fatal confrontation with Eric Garner occurred—rarely punished officers found to have engaged in chokeholds, and at most took away a few vacation days. The implicit message to officers was that those running the department didn’t take the offense seriously.
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