The NYPD on Thursday proposed less harsh penalties for certain types of police misconduct.
The revisions to the NYPD’s Disciplinary Matrix were set in motion in December when Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said she planned to tweak the penalty guidelines for cops accused of misconduct, saying it would be unfair to punish officers who made “good-faith errors.”
The Legal Aid Society later revealed that last year, Sewell set aside or flat-out ignored more than 400 penalties recommended by the Civilian Complaint Review Board against cops accused of misconduct.
