Lieberman said she hoped the NYPD would go further and catalog incidents where cops forced people to put their hands against cars or buildings.
That type of force is not reflected in the new guidelines, but it could be added to the list of force incidents if the subject sustains an injury, according to Ward.
The city’s largest police union blasted the new policy Thursday.
"No amount of new training or additional paperwork will make necessary force that is lawful and properly used by police officers acceptable to those who want to return to the hands-off, reactive policing strategies that sent crime soaring in the past,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said in a statement. “More paperwork coupled with a serious shortage of police officers and the continual second-guessing of their actions is a formula for disaster.”
And, Jesus wept!