A slew of NYPD officers recounted on Sunday horror stories from their careers in which they say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and, despite being exonerated, had the allegations shared to the public by the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB), damaging their reputations and personal lives.
This comes after the Police Benevolent Association, the largest uniformed union in the Big Apple, announced it was suing the CCRB for releasing unsubstantiated allegations to third-party websites such as 50-a.org, a database that allows the public to search for officers’ names and view their alleged misconduct records.
According to cops who sat down with amNewYork under the promise of anonymity, they support police accountability and oversight if the allegation is proven. However, they say that their lives were negatively impacted because a person they arrested made a false allegation of sexual misconduct that was shared to 50-a.org.
One seasoned police officer who works in northern Manhattan shared that after making an arrest and working with an EMT to transport a woman to the hospital for a psychological evaluation, the emotionally distressed female began claiming that he had groped her and even raped her after he told her to stop acting erratically. According to the cop, she even threatened him, stating, “I am going to mess up your career.”
She continued the assault allegations even when she arrived at the hospital, repeating the claims to doctors and nurses.
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A slew of NYPD officers recounted on Sunday horror stories from their careers in which they say they were falsely accused of sexual misconduct and, despite being exonerated, had the allegations sh...