Why Police Lack Accountability in New York

In this episode, we talk about police accountability and why it’s so sorely lacking here in New York. We speak with John Teufel, the author of This Month in Eric Adams, a column on indypendent.org. Teufel is a savvy observer of New York politics and media and a former investigator at the Civilian Complaint Review Board, where he reviewed dozens of case of police misconduct and saw first-hand how the system of police accountability works. In 2021, he won a lawsuit against the city to dislodge NYPD disciplinary reporters, which we now can access via FOIA requests. In the second half of the show, Michael Hayes, author of The Secret Files: Bill de Blasio, the NYPD and the Broken Promises of Police Reform, joins in the conversation.