“When the judge is accusing your officers of perjury, or is intensely criticizing their behavior, you'd want to absolutely know whether they violated policy, right?”
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.James Jenkins doesn’t remember the faces of the Nassau County police detectives who strip searched him at the side of a residential street in 2018. He just remembers the bright lights of all the cop cars.
“The guy puts on gloves and literally drops my pants for me, spreads my legs, and tells me to cough,” Jenkins said.Jenkins later sued the officers and the county for false arrest and excessive force. In 2021, a judge ruled in Jenkins’s favor, excoriating the officers in a, saying they created false reports, lied in court, falsely arrested Jenkins, and that the public strip search amounted to excessive force.
In total, from 2016 to 2021, there were 30 people who won court judgments against Nassau County Police for 41 allegations of false arrest and excessive force. In seven of these cases, a federal judge or jury decided that police falsely arrested or used excessive force. For 38 of the allegations, the Nassau County Attorney’s office paid money to settle the case while also barring the accuser from speaking publicly about the allegations.
“When the judge is accusing your officers of perjury, or is intensely criticizing their behavior, you'd want to absolutely know whether they violated policy, right?”for internal affairs recommends treating a civil lawsuit as a complaint. In statements, both Suffolk County police and the New York State Police said they investigate claims made in a civil lawsuit.
Keith Taylor, a retired assistant NYPD commissioner who worked in internal affairs who is now a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College, said when civil lawsuits aren’t accompanied by internal affairs investigations and discipline, police misconduct is likely to continue. This gives people like Jenkins a third option besides complaining to the police department or suing. However, the attorney general’s office says its unit can’t make up for a lack of local police oversight. Those who’ve had frequent conversations with people involved in the unit say the office’s main function is to suggest changes to state law.
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