A City Councilman has bluntly questioned the NYPD’s commitment to rooting out discrimination and outright racial animus within its ranks.
Councilman Ritchie Torres said the department’s failure to fire a commanding officer more than five weeks after an investigation revealed he was behind hundreds of crass postings on a quasi-public police message board risked further compromising the NYPD’s already tenuous relationship with certain communities.
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