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On Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that he was ordering the NYPD to conduct a review of its use-of-force practices, along with a new slate of accountability and transparency measures for the department. Those accountability measures include the mandatory release of final reports to families whose loved ones are killed or seriously injured by the NYPD; increased funding for the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD to "investigate policies and practices that undermine accountability for police misconduct"; and formalizing a system to notify state officials when cops who face serious disciplinary charges seek law enforcement roles elsewhere in New York state.
But in the wake of an ICE shooting uptown, and amidst growing pressure to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and disband the Strategic Response Group, those gestures at reform fall profoundly short of the demands from the mayor's progressive base.
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