How reporters obtained 10,000 police disciplinary records

How The New York Times, New York Focus obtained 10,000 police disciplinary records

This story originally appeared in the New York Times and New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for New York Focus’ newsletter here. Sammy Sussman pored over more than 10,000 police disciplinary files to report this article, which is part of a series by The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. You can read the first story in this series here. In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s…

How reporters obtained 10,000 police disciplinary records

The New York Times and New York Focus gathered thousands of files from around half of New York’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies.

How We Obtained 10,000 Police Disciplinary Records

This article was published in partnership with The New York Times. In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020, New York State repealed a law that for decades kept the disciplinary records of its police officers secret. New York Focus and The New York Times have since gathered over 10,000 such files from around half of New York State’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies. The documents…

NYT: How we obtained 10,000 police disciplinary records - The Ithaca Voice

NEW YORK — In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020, New York State repealed a law that for decades kept the disciplinary records of its police officers secret. The New York Times and New York Focus, a nonprofit newsroom, have since gathered over 10,000 such files from around half of New York State’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies. The documents, most of which are from the past…

How 10,000 police disciplinary records were obtained

The investigation has so far obtained records regarding 235 departments collectively containing over 8,000 sworn officers, according to state data. (Photo credit: Emily Berl for the New York Times) In the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in 2020, New York State repealed a law that for decades kept the disciplinary records of its police officers secret. The New York Times and New York Focus…