An NYPD officer will face a departmental disciplinary trial in May 2019 for alleged use of excessive force that led to the death of an unarmed black man. Officer Daniel Pantaleo was accused of recklessly and intentionally placing 43-year-old Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during a 2014 confrontation over untaxed cigarette sales. Garner could…

On this episode of Justice, One Client at a Time, we take a look at how over 1,000 NYPD officers and other employees had their disciplinary records shared online.

The disciplinary records of more than a thousand New York Police Department (NYPD) officers and other employees were recently made public. The leak revealed punishment practices for various offenses such as tardiness at work, drunk driving and excessive force. The documents were previously confidential until BuzzFeed News published them as a searchable database on its…

The NYPD issued a statement that two of its police officers received suspensions without pay due to their mishandling of a call regarding a disturbance at the home of a woman who had suffered abuse at the hands of her husband, and subsequently died. The officers drove to her home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, but…