The city’s detectives union enraged the Civilian Complaint Review Board this week, displaying the names and photos of six “anti-police activists” at the agency on a truck parked outside the group’s New York City headquarters.
The allegedly unbiased agency’s six CCRB investigators have previously made negative statements about cops on social media and in other prior writings.
“We parked this billboard outside the CCRB because New Yorkers deserve to know the truth,” said Scott Monroe, president of the Investigators Endowment. “CCRB has become a haven for anti-police activists masquerading as investigators.”
He said extremists within the police watchdog agency — which is supposed to investigate civilian complaints against cops — have made it their mission “to go after investigators, harm careers and make the job of protecting this city more difficult.”
The six were among eight CCRB employees targeted by the Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, in a May 7 letter demanding they be fired over social media posts and college essays that the union called “blatant evidence of anti-police bias.”
Some detectives posted “ACAB” — an anti-police acronym for “All Cops Are Bastards” — on social media, and others expressed their opinions in articles about completely eliminating police, according to the Police Association.
The CCRB told a group of city council members in June that it was investigating the allegations. A board spokesman said Friday that the investigation is ongoing.
“The CCRB is committed to conducting fair and impartial investigations,” CCRB spokeswoman Dakota Gardner said. “The agency takes allegations of bias seriously, and the investigation into this complaint remains ongoing.”
But one law enforcement source said the cops were doomed even before they entered the agency’s offices.
“It’s like a kangaroo court over there,” the source said.
“If you go and sit in front of people who already hate you when you walk in, how is that fair?” asked the source. “These are the same people who chant ‘equality for all,’ but that doesn’t matter if you’re wearing blue.”