U.S. Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Police in New York Suburb
The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said.
3 December 2021
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The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said.
3 December 2021
Federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into whether the Mount Vernon, N.Y., police department had engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said on Friday. Investigators will examine reports that Mount Vernon officers regularly use excessive force, conduct unlawful strip and body-cavity searches during arrests and falsify evidence, officials said. The inquiry will also focus on whether officers have targeted Black residents in Mount Vernon — a New York City suburb of about 66,000 people in Westchester County just north of the Bronx — for mistreatment, officials said. About 60 percent of Mount Vernon residents ...
U.S. Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Police in New York Suburb
The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said.