More Than 1,000 New York City Residents Claim to be Victims of Banned NYPD Chokeholds

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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/more-1000-new-york-city-residents-claim-be-victims-banned-nypd-chokeholds



According to the New York Daily News, numbers from the Civilian Complaint Review Board reveal that more than 1,000 New York City residents claimed to be victims of NYPD chokeholds in the past five years. The numbers were unveiled as the Board prepares to conduct a study of the allegations.

The Daily News wrote:

As of July 1, the CCRB had received 58 chokehold complaints against the NYPD this year, but had only substantiated one of them.

Out of the 1,022 chokehold allegations reported between 2009 and 2013, only 462 of the complaints were investigated. Out of that number, just nine were substantiated, according to the CCRB.

There wasn’t enough evidence to prove a chokehold was used in 206 of the cases investigated, officials said.

TheNew York Times reported that chokehold allegations in the city have increased from a decade ago, despite the fact that NYPD banned the use of the chokehold 20 years ago.

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1. How were the substantiated incidents addressed?

Two weeks suspended duty with pay?