Complaints against NYPD hit 11-year high under pro-police mayor Adams

Concern that community relations are suffering as return to 1990s-style broken windows' policing focused on anti-social behavior

Misconduct complaints against New York City police officers have risen to their highest levels since 2012, prompting some to put the blame on Mayor Eric Adams's extremely pro-police mayorship and claim it is deteriorating the NYPD's relationship with the community".

The latest monthly report from the civilian complaint review board (CCRB), the city's independent police watchdog, tallied 4,262 misconduct complaints filed against NYPD personnel as of the end of September 2023. This is the highest year-to-date tally since 2012, when the CCRB fielded 4,546 allegations of abuse when Michael Bloomberg was mayor and the NYPD conducted hundreds of thousands of unconstitutional stop-and-frisk encounters in communities of color under the then police commissioner, Ray Kelly.