New York City's police watchdog agency retroactively altered thousands of records of police misconduct allegations in published records, new data reveals.
Last month, Hell Gate broke the story that the Civilian Complaint Review Board has a practice of obscuring the nature of some misconduct allegations against officers in its public-facing data, a previously undisclosed practice the agency told Hell Gate it had undertaken at the request of unnamed "stakeholders."
Since then, the website 50-a.org, which downloads and makes searchable NYPD misconduct records from public databases, has updated thousands of its listings, and Hell Gate's review of those updates shows that in 2023 and 2024, the CCRB recategorized more than 10,000 misconduct allegations previously published to the City's open data portal.
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