Thus, the authority to prosecute substantiated misconduct complaints — as the program envisioned — is delayed.
The law came under close scrutiny in July when a state judge in Manhattan ordered the city to release summaries of substantiated misconduct findings by the Civilian Complaint Review Board against the police officer who used a chokehold on Eric Garner during the arrest that led to Mr. Garner's death.
A state judge in Manhattan acted in the public interest this month when she ordered the city to release a summary of substantiated misconduct findings against the police officer who used a chokehold against Eric Garner last year during an arrest that led to Mr. Garner's death.
"We have completed our inquiry regarding the conduct of Mr. Perle and did not substantiate allegations of misconduct," Joseph E. Schmirtz, the inspector general, wrote in a letter to Mr. Conyers that accompanied the report.
Mr. Green's 147-page report was based on a review of Police Department records of disciplinary cases brought in response to cases of misconduct substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board between 1997 and 1999.
Based on a review of cases of police misconduct substantiated against 664 officers, Mr. Green said he found that 75percentt of the officers disciplined received insignificant penalties that he characterized as a "slap on the wrist".
Moss said the review had "not obtained any information which substantiates the alleged misconduct in terms of inappropriate attitude, emotive reporting and links to refugee advocacy groups in relation to the 10 Save the Children members".
On Wednesday, the city agency charged with investigating police misconduct substantiated claims by former tennis pro James Blake that an officer used excessive force in taking him to the ground and wrongly arresting him last month after mistaking him for a fraud suspect.
Although a Civilian Complaint Review Board investigation substantiated claims of misconduct by the police officers involved, determining that cops had not only repeatedly hit the dirt bike but had also made false statements, neither of the cops were disciplined.
"Other than the videotaping of coaching signals, there has been no evidence to substantiate a claim of misconduct by the Patriots on any of these matters," Aiello wrote in an e-mail message.
