A few high -ranking New York City Police Chiefs Department policy violated when they made “humiliating” and “unprofessional” social media posts to attack civil servants and journalists, according to a report released on Tuesday by an independent monitor.
The office of the Inspector General for the NYPD has the deputy commissioner Kaz Daughtry and her current top uniformed member John Chell for posts that were shared last year on the social media platform X who served to be senior law enforcement officials in the eyes of the public “in” in ” Shared the eyes of the audience.
The posts fell together with the efforts of the department to “control the story” by creating their own media device and people who were considered hostile to the goals of the department.
Researchers mentioned various displays of “inappropriate” online behavior, including a message from Chell’s official X account that accused a judge in New York to have a “predator” released on the New York City streets. He later admitted that he had criticized the wrong judge.
John Chell speaks during a briefing for a raid on the Brooklyn Borough of New York, January 4, 2022. (AP)
Chell also attacked a progressive member of the city council as a “person who hates our city” after she criticized the reaction of the NYPD to anti-Israeli protests at university campuses.
When Chell again attacked the city councilor, Chell told his followers to ‘vote the change you are looking for’, the report of which can violate comments, the Hatch Act, a federal law that prohibits political activity from government employees who work in connection with federal programs .
The online attacks ran at least from the internal guidelines of the base, researchers said.
“They violated the department policy with regard to polite and civilian and raise questions about whether they can be considered prohibited involvement in political activity by city employees,” the report said.
The office of the Inspector General for the NYPD has accused the deputy commissioner Kaz Daughtry and her current top uniformed member John Chell. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty images)
A spokesperson for NYPD said that the department “made important changes to its social media practices” because the investigation was started last year, but did not say whether officials would have consequences for the violation of department policy.
In several cases, both Chell and Daughtry gave mocking nicknames to journalists, who accused them of spreading wrong information about the performance of the administration.
Democratic mayor Eric AdamsWho is also a former police captain, then defended officials for ‘standing up for police officers who put their lives at stake’. Chell was appointed head of the department last month and replaced another Adams -Bondenmate who resigned in the midst of accusations of sexual abuse.
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The online attacks ran at least from the internal guidelines of the base, researchers said. (Istock)
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A spokesperson for the city council, Rendy Desamours, said that the probe made it clear that the NYPD “must adjust its social media practices to the established policy of the city and retain strong supervision to guarantee compliance.”
“Taking care of the social practices of the NYPD is suitable and respectfully requires that the department who has violated the policy is responsible,” said Desamours.
The Inspector General said in the report that the online attacks had stopped after the investigation had started last year, although this was not due to some official change in the policy of social media in the field of department.
“On the contrary, the department acknowledged that it could effectively respond to criticism without creating a public recoil,” the report said.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
