Jessica Klein

1 month ago | thenewshouse.com | James Kelly |Nathan Lechner |Kevin Lu |Jessica Klein

Police in New York are now using force at higher rates and injuring more people after officers faced limited discipline for use-of-force misconduct that was shrouded in secrecy for generations, records and data show. The newly reported findings — including that half of nearly 100 use-of-force misconduct cases reviewed for this article were ultimately deemed justified by internal police investigations — recently came to light after a decade-long push for improved police transparency.