If you think that headline is clickbait, it’s not. It actually paraphrases the official New York Police Department’s training manual.
An official investigation into complaints of biased policing against the NYPD’s officers reveals, among other things, that the outfit doesn’t consider cops using racial slurs as evidence of bias; that the vast majority of people who accuse NYPD officers of racial profiling and bias are black; and, the almost unbelievable fact that the NYPD has never disciplined an officer for racial profiling and biased policing.
Ever.
In October 2014, the NYPD began a “Bias-Based Profiling” initiative that tracked and investigated complaints of racial profiling and police bias after a federal judgeruled that the city’s “stop and frisk” policy violated the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments of the Constitution because they disproportionately targeted black and Latino citizens. The court order demanded that the NYPD “begin tracking and investigating civilian complaints related to racial profiling and other allegations of bias.” Prior to that, the department did not even track complaints, Newsweekreports.
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On Wednesday, New York City’s Department of Investigation, an independent watchdog agency, issued a report examining the NYPD’s investigations, policies and training related to complaints of biased policing between 2014 and Dec. 31, 2018. The report specifically focused on discrimination by police against people with protected status (race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.)
When a person alleges that an NYPD officer used a racial slur, the NYPD doesn’t investigate the comment as an incident of biased policing. Instead, it forwards the complaint to the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (the primary agency charged with investigating officer misconduct including use of force, offensive language, abuse of authority, and discourtesy).
Source: NYPD: It’s Not Racist When a Cop Calls You the N-Word
