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The Westchester County District Attorney is calling on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department.
DA Mimi Rocah announced on Friday, April 30 that she is calling on the DOs to investigate the department for pervasive and persistent alleged civil rights violations including unlawful strip searches, excessive use of force, and other misconduct.
Rocah noted that her office is in the process of multiple criminal investigations involving certain Mount Vernon police officers.
“In the course of those investigations, based largely on publicly available information, we have found disturbing allegations of patterns of inappropriate and potentially unlawful conduct by several former and current members of the Mount Vernon Police Department,” she said. “We have provided information that we gathered in this respect to DOJ.”
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