The NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, abused his authority when he interfered in the 2021 arrest of a former
The decision by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun comes a few months after the family of the shot man, Delrawn Small, accused the judge of slow-walking the case to protect the officer from firing.
How his aspirations play out in a city where fears of increasing crime followed wide-scale protests against police violence in 2020 remains to be seen.
Police accountability advocates and the family of Delrawn Small, a man shot dead by an off-duty police officer in 2015, continued the six-year fight for