She was a victim of police violence. Then the NYPD Commissioner buried her case.youtu.be When Brianna Villafane took to the streets of New York City in the summer of 2020 to protest police violence, she did not expect to be the victim of it. Although a police oversight agency found that an NYPD officer’s behavior toward her during that protest constituted significant misconduct, Villafane’s case was buried. Meanwhile, the officer that attacked her has been promoted — twice. A ProPublica investigation found that Police Commissioner Edward Caban has unilaterally buried a number cases of police misconduct through a little-known power called retention, which involves stopping a case before it reaches disciplinary trial and short-circuiting the oversight and disciplinary process altogether. Read our full story, co-published with The New York Times, at: https://propub.li/3VFvAVI #nypd, #newyorkpolicedepartment, #policemisconduct - ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. + Sign up for our weekly newsletter: http://propub.li/2oyN8DY + Follow us on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/propublica + Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/propublica/ + Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@propublica + Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/propublica + Follow us on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@propublica + Follow us on Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica + Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.bsky.social
