Feds: Yonkers, NY, police dept. has confusing policies on force, sour relations with residents
By Jim Fitzgerald, APFriday, June 19, 2009
Feds: Unclear policies on force in NY police dept.
YONKERS, N.Y. — The Justice Department says a New York police department has a skittish relationship with residents and confusing policies on the use of force.
The findings are in an interim report on a federal investigation into allegations of police brutality in Yonkers, just north of New York City.
Mayor Philip Amicone (am-ih-KOH’-nee) said Friday that the report says nothing about civil rights violations and that the Justice Department would find “no systemic problem.”
The Justice Department continues to investigate.
Last month, a federal jury acquitted a Yonkers policeman who was accused of violating a woman’s civil rights. He had been caught on video apparently body-slamming her to a restaurant’s tile floor.
Tags: Civil Rights Violations, Criminal Investigations, Law Enforcement, N.y., New York, North America, Police, United States, Us-yonkers-police-investigation, Yonkers
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August 5, 2009: 2:24 am
I would like to become a police officer in yonkers,n.y I am strong, physically fit and hiv positive.Although they supposably cant discriminate against me, would that be something they look for in a blood test?I’m also not taking any meds at this point in time.Please I really need to know. |
 David Scott |
June 21, 2009: 6:58 pm
Although, I personally am so far to the left that even the democrats appear to me to be “right-wing,” I consider myself to be a strict constitutionalist. It is my opinion that since its inception there has been an organized and systematic assault by the conservatives in the United States on the civil liberties written into the US Constitution. The “War on Drugs”; “War on Terror”; “War on Communism” and a host of other wars waged by the right wing are really nothing more than a War on People–an excuse to erode civil rights to the point of non-existence. |
valerie