Eric Adams Appointee and NY Post Veteran Can't Stop, Won't Stop Upending NYPD Discipline

Certain members of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, including an NYPD appointee and a former New York Post columnist, are continuing to overturn investigators' findings of police misconduct at a rate far out of proportion to historic norms and their colleagues, according to new information reviewed by Hell Gate.

Last month, we wrote about a panel of three board members who, at a meeting in March, reviewed 190 instances in which CCRB investigators had found evidence of NYPD misconduct, and reversed roughly half of the recommendations, far above the roughly 10 percent rate at which board members have overruled investigators' findings over the past decade.

Last week, they did it again. According to documents reviewed by Hell Gate, on Tuesday, the same three board members—Joseph Fox, appointed by the NYPD; AU Hogan, appointed by the City Council; and Pat Smith, appointed by Mayor Eric Adams—considered another slate of alleged police misconduct cases, including 146 allegations for which CCRB investigators found enough evidence to recommend a finding of substantiated misconduct.