New Rochelle Police Accountability: CPPB to CCRB

New Rochelle CPPB

Members of the Community Organize to Deliver Detailed Critique New Rochelle Police Reform Plan (2/22/2021)

Community-Police Partnership Board Nominations Proposed to New Rochelle City Council (6/14/2021)

New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board is Not a Path Towards Transparency and Accountability (10/1/2021)

Community Police Partnership Board Meeting Raw Notes October 13, 2021 (10/13/2021)

Time Running Out to Salvage New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board (10/28/2021)

New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board Holds Third Stop on Listening Tour at The Hollow (12/8/2021)

Heritage Homes Residents Get Real with New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board at Fourth Stop on Listening Tour (12/9/2021)

Community Police Partnership Board Meeting Raw Notes October 23, 2022 (12/7/2022)

OPEN LETTER: Why the Disinterest in Sustained Civilian Complaints by New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board? (12/7/2022)

New Rochelle Community-Police Partnership Board Holds Sixth (and Final) Stop on Listening Tour (12/7/2022)

FARCE CONTINUES: Community Police Partnership Board Meeting 2/23/23 (2/27/2023)

Applications Now Open for New Rochelle Citizen Complaint Review Board (3/1/2025)

New Rochelle Establishes Civilian Complaint Review Board (6/23/2025)

New Rochelle CCRB

Talk of the Sound and Words in Edgewise articles on the New Rochelle Civilian Complaint Review Board and its predecessor, the Community Police Partnership Board.

New Rochelle CCRB Investigation: What Records Show, What’s Missing, What’s Next (5/20/2026)

No Stipends Paid to New Rochelle CCRB Members; Chairperson Declined Compensation (5/20/2026)

City Manager Admitted Board Could Meet Before Training Was Complete. It Never Did (5/20/2026)

New Rochelle Violated Its Own Code on CCRB Trainer Selection — for Every Training Component (5/20/2026)

Inside the Records: How the New Rochelle CCRB Got Trapped in a Doom Loop of Its Own Making (5/20/2026)

New Rochelle Police Records: Kane Admitted He Did Not See Harper Discard Drugs, Then Filed for Disability Retirement (5/21/2026)

Westchester DA Never Released Promised ‘Bad Cops’ List as Kane, McKenna and Vaccaro Cases Raised Questions (5/21/2026)

New Rochelle CCRB Chair. Term Expires June 30 — Board Has Never Met (5/22/2026)

Westchester DA Promised Transparency on Bad Cop List Then Fought New Rochelle Judge for Enforcing Discovery Law (5/22/2026)

Cases That Created New Rochelle CCRB Are Largely Beyond Its Reach – Save One (5/22/2026)

Full CCRB Report — Table of Contents

Talk of the Sound and Words in Edgewise have published a comprehensive research report on the New Rochelle Civilian Complaint Review Board — a board established by city ordinance in October 2024, seated in July 2025, and as of May 17, 2026, had never held a single meeting.

New Rochelle Civilian Complaint Review Board: Full Investigation

1. Executive Summary

2. The Origin: June 2020

3. Four Incidents, No Civilian Oversight

4. Five Years of Performative Reform

5. Chronology

6. Natasha Fapohunda — Chairperson

7. Board Composition

8. Training Requirements and Status

9. The Civilian Complaints Data

10. The Case the CCRB Should Have Reviewed — Sean Kane

11. Structural and Legal Issues

12. Questions for Officials

13. FOIL Requests

14. Source Documents