Former Employees Of Police Watchdog Agency Say They Were Fired For Flagging Problems With Investigations
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Four former employees of the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) are suing the agency and the City of New York, claiming they were dismissed from their jobs for flagging concerns with investigations and with what they saw as an inability among senior leadership to assert independence from the NYPD.
The former employees, who have more than 50 years of experience working at the CCRB among them, claim their First Amendment rights were violated when their jobs were terminated in November at a time when the public demanded even more scrutiny of police actions.