Meet the Cops Running the NYPD’s 86-Member Public Relations Team
The police department’s PR team has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.
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To identify DCPI-assigned uniformed officers, New York Focus consulted a web archive program created by citizen watchdogs, as well as 50-a.org — both of which regularly scrape NYPD-published data — then checked the findings against the police department’s online portal of uniformed personnel. To retrieve the DCPI officers’ former assignments, New York Focus relied on a snapshot of the NYPD’s uniformed personnel portal this reporter downloaded in October 2022. Officers’ salary and overtime information came from New York City’s published citywide payroll data.
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