NYC Mayor orders NYPD use-of-force review and police oversight funding

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 12 Oct, 15:43 · Archive

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered the NYPD to review its use-of-force policies for the first time in a decade.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that the NYPD must conduct a review of its use-of-force policies for the first time in a decade. He also announced $2.6 million in additional funding for independent police oversight and introduced reforms to ensure officers accused of serious misconduct face disciplinary processes before retirement.

The announcement follows the death of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old experiencing a mental health crisis, who was shot by police in March 2024. Officers responded to Rozario's home in Ozone Park, Queens after a 911 call. Body camera footage showed that Rozario lunged at officers with scissors despite his family's pleas not to shoot. Police had used a taser on him twice before he charged at them, prompting officers Matthew Cianfrocco and Salvatore Alongi to open fire. Rozario died at the hospital. The New York Attorney General declined to press criminal charges against the officers in December, though they remained subject to internal review.

One of the officers involved in Rozario's death retired on Thursday before his disciplinary trial could take place, prompting outrage from the teenager's family. Mamdani said in a statement that the standard for accountability when government uses force must be at its highest, and that New Yorkers deserve to know force will be used lawfully and only when necessary.

How it is being reported

• NYC Mayor Mamdani orders NYPD use-of-force reviewNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday directed the NYPD to conduct a review of its use-of-force policies for the first time in a decade.UPI · 12 Oct, 15:34
• Mamdani orders NYPD to review its use-of-force policies, announces extra funding for police oversightThe directive, announced Monday, comes after an officer involved in the fatal shooting of a mentally ill Queens teenager was allowed to retire before facing a disciplinary trial.New York Post · 12 Oct, 14:43

In this story: Zohran Mamdani · Win Rozario · New York Police Department · New York · Matthew Cianfrocco · Salvatore Alongi · Ozone Park

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