A New Way to Search for Complaints Against NYPD Officers
Last month, New York State repealed 50a, the law that shielded police disciplinary records from public view for decades, and journalists were able to access thousands of complaints against police officers. WNYC/Gothamist reporters George Joseph and Christopher Robbins, and Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor for ProPublica, talk about what they found when they reviewed the data, and what it says about the culture at the NYPD.