Key Demands on Ending Racial Profiling and Police Misconduct

1. Fire New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and make Police Commissioner an elected position – Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Chief Izzo must be held accountable for their role in maintaining an environment that condones and tolerates police misconduct.  A message must be sent that the leadership of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) will be held responsible for all acts of police misconduct and especially murder.

2. Community Control – The communities in New York City must be in a position to   determine who patrols their/our streets, who commands them, how they are trained and when necessary terminate their employment.  Community residents of New York City must be able to transform the Civilian Complaint review board to a body that can truly investigate and punish wrong doing on the police force.  To that end the CCRB must be controlled by community members.

3. Independent Investigations of Past Police Killings – Police brutality and killings have become a major issue with the NYPD.   Patterns of police killings have increased and been left unanswered.  It is clear that the NYPD is incapable of policing itself.  Therefore we are calling on the Federal Government to investigate the killings of Sean Bell, Timothy Stansbury, Keshaun Watson, Yong Xin Huang, Anthony Rosario, Hilton Vega and the scores of other unsolved police killings.

 4. End to militarized anti-crime programs and tasks force  – The policies and practices of the NYPD have created a culture of brutality and militarized policing.  The Street Crimes Unit was one of the more popular tasks force that was allowed to violate the human rights of people of color at will.  We are demanding an end to all anti crime programs that selectively target communities of Color using statistics, race, immigration status, perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or other illegal factors as justification for denying residents their legally established rights.

 5. Independent Prosecutor – considering the interwoven relationship between the NYPD and the District Attorney’s office, it is clear that a fair and impartial investigation into NYPD misconduct is highly unlikely.  An Independent prosecutor must be identified to prosecute all cases of misconduct against NYPD personnel.