Of these, only a small fraction of the cases are ever substantiated – just ten during the five and a half year window.
The CCRB substantiated just nine of those complaints, and only one officer was disciplined -- by being docked some vacation days.
For this purpose, one would need to prepare a condition where animals make eye movements to either attended or nonattended stimuli, but even then the absence of attention cannot be fully substantiated just because the animals did make eye movements to the (putatively) nonattended stimuli.
Just last month, investigators substantiated claims that Simon Wilkins, a school aide at J.H.S. 13 in Manhattan, had twisted the nipples of four male students, and had grabbed the testicles of one of them.
It has been claimed, but never substantiated, that Blair got more than just communion while in the Vatican, and that he was bitterly admonished by the then Pontiff for his stand on Iraq.
He just has a set of claims, which he fails to substantiate, because they just can't be substantiated.
But I'm just not sure that we'll be able to substantiate just with what someone told me as adequate proof of how federal funds were spent," McFadden said.
The story was substantiated by just two testimonials.
Anyway the entire story is substantiated by just one source and he or she is unidentified.
Priscilla Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform, an umbrella organization for nearly 30 social justice groups, called Bratton's announcement Thursday a "positive step," but added that the NYPD also needs to start tracking "disciplinary actions taken for use of force cases, not just those reported and substantiated by CCRB". .
Given the controversy over Kaspersky's rumored but never clearly substantiated closeness with Russian intelligence, the move might just be erring on the side of caution.
