PBA Leads the Way

This should be a national effort:

• New York City’s largest police union is suing the watchdog agency that investigates allegations of officer misconduct, saying the Civilian Complaint Review Board has stigmatized officers by sharing “inflammatory” records related to unsubstantiated allegations of sexual misconduct, bias-based policing and lying.

  The Police Benevolent Association is urging the CCRB to redact officers’ identifying information when it turns over records related to these three categories of misconduct, if the officers were not found guilty of wrongdoing. It’s also asking the agency to implement a process for officers to clear their names before these types of unsubstantiated complaints are disclosed.

Compare that to the policies here where allegations that haven't been proven, haven't been testified to, haven't even gotten a sworn affidavit attached to them are all over the Invisible Institute website, surviving any effort to be removed even decades after the Officer has died.

Remember, this unsustained unproven crap follows you into retirement job applications forever.

No idea if the PBA will win this battle, but it's good to remind everyone that while Police aren't above the Law, they shouldn't be under it either and the onerous burden of unproven allegations shouldn't punish you for a lifetime when you finally get out of this shitshow.