CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Fix 50-a, the Right Way
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‘Repealing Section 50-a is the easy part; the hard part will be in creating a new system that ensures police officer discipline is transparent to the public.’
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Opinion: Who’s Afraid of Police Transparency? History Says There’s Little to Fear
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The de Blasio administration is hedging on reform to 50-a, the state statute that cloaks police discipline in secrecy. But an experiment 20 years ago that threw NYPD hearings into public view did not lead to any of the problems the city says it is concerned about.