Category: Public Safety
Pressure Mounts for More Oversight of NRPD
Community Calls Grow for Removal of Commissioner The New Rochelle City Council got an earful from residents voicing their support for a Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) with strong oversight powers over the Police...
Crisis at the New Rochelle Police Department
Is Anyone Taking This Seriously? By the Editorial Board of New RoAR News Facts: Police Commissioner Robert Gazzola Two Black men shot dead by NRPD officers in four years, a third Black man framed...
Backing Detective Conn Killing Garris, PBA Statement Turns Reality on Its Head
By the New RoAR News Editorial Board In a statement responding to the New York State Attorney General’s report on the July 2023 killing of Jarrel Garris by NRPD Detective Steven Conn, the New...
NYS AG James: No Criminal Charges Against NRPD Detective Steven Conn in killing of Jarrel Garris
Attorney General finds Conn needlessly escalated a minor incident and criticizes NRPD policies and training After 14 months of investigation, the office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced on Wednesday, Sept....
City Council Public Hearings on Tuesday, September 10
III. Citizens To Be Heard: An Opportunity to Address Corruption in the NRPD The New Rochelle City Council will hold two important public hearings and its usual monthly Citizens To Be Heard session on...
City Council Public Hearings on Tuesday, September 10
I: Civilian Complaint Review Board The New Rochelle City Council will hold two important public hearings and its usual monthly Citizens To Be Heard session on Tuesday, September 10th, beginning at 7 pm at...
Charges Dismissed Against Ivin Harper Amid Evidence That NRPD Lieutenant Kane Planted Drugs
Kane has been “destroying our Black community for years,” Harper tells judge Drug-possession charges against Ivin Harper were dismissed in City Court on August 23 based on body-cam video suggesting that NRPD Lieutenant Sean...
NRPD Lieutenant Kane Suspended After Allegedly Planting Drugs to Make Arrest
The tip of an iceberg? The head of the New Rochelle Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit, Lieutenant Sean Kane, was suspended on July 29 after evidence emerged that he planted drugs under the car...
The Evolution of National Night Out
Building community-based policing, or performative public relations? National Night Out is a community policing awareness-raising event in the United States, held the first Tuesday of every August. New Rochelle’s 2024 National Night Out will...