Police Benevolent Association Of the City of New York Incorporated
125 Broad Street, NY, NY, 10004-2400
Patrick Hendry, President
Contact:
212-298-9187
April 13, 2026
PBA Publishes Report on CCRB Bias and Injustice
Today, following the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s release of its annual statistical report, the New York City PBA released its own 2025 Annual Report on CCRB. Using data provided directly by the agency, the report highlights CCRB’s continued pattern of unfairness and injustice, which is eroding officer rights and threatening public safety.
NYC PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “Every year, CCRB cherry-picks and distorts its data to create a false narrative about policing in New York City. Our report sets the record straight. With just one complaint for every 1,639 calls for service, and with the vast majority of complaints found to be false or unsubstantiated, New York City police officers are performing their job at the highest levels of professionalism. Yet every one of those false and frivolous complaints remains on a police officer’s public record, negatively impacting both their careers and life outside of work. If our city leaders don’t take action to correct the injustice at CCRB, it will continue to erode public safety by driving talented police officers away from the NYPD.”
*** READ THE FULL REPORT HERE ***
Major Highlights:
- Massive workload, few complaints: One CCRB complaint filed for every 1,639 NYPD calls for service. The overwhelming majority of calls are handled successfully and without issue.
- Active complaint harvesting: Nearly 2,000 allegations were closed as Unfounded (i.e. completely false, frivolous and/or fabricated accounts). CCRB actively solicits complaints and permits false allegations to artificially inflate its complaint volume in order to justify the agency’s demands for more money and power.
- Second-guessing over minor issues: 85% of allegations closed in 2025 were not substantiated. Of the 2,180 allegations that were substantiated, 919 (42%) were for three minor technicalities (not providing a department-issued business card, minor discourtesy, timeliness of body-worn camera activation).
- Ratcheting up punishment: CCRB has aggressively ratcheted up recommendations of charges and specifications (its most serious level of recommended discipline) in recent years. Between 2021 and 2025, the number of cases in which CCRB seeks charges and specifications has increased by 608%.
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The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) is the largest municipal police union in the nation and represents nearly 50,000 active and retired NYC police officers.