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Stripping Cops' Pensions Shouldn't Happen Lightly

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/5/21

Mayor de Blasio spent the early part of his March 31 media availability talking about a police-reform plan he had put together with the City Council a couple of weeks earlier that among other changes would ask the state to make it easier to strip cops convicted of misconduct of their pension rights. 

It had been released earlier in the month under the heading of NYC Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Draft Plan. It called for "a pension-reduction or forfeiture remedy for the most-egregious misconduct cases; for example, where there is death or serious physical injury which creates substantial risk of death or which causes serious and protracted disfigurement, protected impairment of health or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ."

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