NEW ROCHELLE, NY (June 24, 2026) — New Rochelle’s Civilian Complaint Review Board can’t review the cases that created it. It can’t legally hold a meeting. Two Co-Chairpersons were appointed before the city had even passed the law allowing Co-Chairpersons to exist. And a six-year-old warning buried in city files is a poison pill waiting to kill the whole thing the moment the board ever actually does something.
Talk of the Sound’s full investigation — drawing on the city code, meeting transcripts, and records obtained under the Freedom of Information Law — breaks down exactly how, piece by piece, the CCRB became a board that will never function. Whether by design or by accident, the result is the same.
Read the full investigation on Words in Edgewise: robertcox.ie.