By Ryan Schwach<\/p>\n
Criminal justice advocates and Win Rozario\u2019s family want Mayor Zohran Mamdani to go deeper on a set of police reforms he introduced on Monday, which he said were an \u201cobligation\u201d to the Queens teen and his family. <\/p>\n
Mamdani announced new reforms to the NYPD\u2019s use-of-force policies and practices in response to the department\u2019s mishandling of the Rozario case \u2013 an officer involved in the teen\u2019s shooting was improperly allowed to retire while still under investigation by both the NYPD and the Civilian Complaint Review Board. <\/p>\n
However, criminal justice advocates who have represented the Rozario family since his death in a 2024 shooting involving NYPD officers said this week that the mayor\u2019s new reforms aren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we appreciate Mayor Mamdani\u2019s intent behind these reforms, they fall far short of what New Yorkers, including Win Rozario\u2019s family, need and deserve,\u201d Justice Committee Executive Director Loyda Colon said in a statement. \u201cThe problem is not that the NYPD needs more training or to revise its policies, but that the Department consistently evades oversight, transparency and meaningful change, violates the law and its own rules to do so, and shields officers who harm and kill New Yorkers from facing discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mamdani\u2019s new policy announcement came a few days after it was reported that Salvatore Alongi, one of the officers involved in the shooting, had retired, avoiding disciplinary charges from the Civilian Complaint Review Board in an apparent violation of the watchdog group\u2019s agreement with the NYPD. <\/p>\n
\u201cAlongi\u2019s retirement with an enhanced pension and the NYPD\u2019s failure to notify the CCRB and report him for decertification is a glaring example of this,\u201d Colon said. \u201cPrevious administrations tried to require the NYPD to review and adjust its own policies and it has never worked.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Eagle reported on Friday that Alongi qualified for accidental disability retirement, which he applied for before being hit with the CCRB\u2019s charges. Accidental disability retirement, often known as \u201cthree-quarters,\u201d allows an officer to retire early due to a mental or physical injury sustained in the line of duty and includes a yearly pension worth 75 percent of their final salary. <\/p>\n
The department blamed a civilian employee for failing to alert the CCRB to Alongi\u2019s retirement so that the board could move quickly to hold a trial in the case. The employee was demoted and reassigned, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch personally apologized for the \u201chuman error\u201d in a statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ryan Schwach Criminal justice advocates and Win Rozario\u2019s family want Mayor Zohran Mamdani to go deeper on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-374094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}