The independent agency that deals with complaints against police in New York says that almost half of all the claims of police brutality it receives are now being proven by video evidence.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates and recommends action on complaints against NYPD officers, released a semiannual report noting that 45 percent of cases where claims of excessive force were made were corroborated by video evidence within the first six months of the year.

That figure constitutes a rise of 11 percent on 2014 findings.

“Video is a fundamental revolution when it comes to the accountability of police officers,” CCRB Chairman Richard Emery told the New York Daily News.

“It’s demystifying the whole investigative process. No longer is the lion’s share of the cases ‘he said, she said’ where additional corroboration is almost always required and substantiation is quite difficult.” Emery added.

Video obtained from phone cameras and cctv amounts to substantiation of 21 percent of all the excessive force claims filed so far in 2015, according to the report. The figure is the highest the CCRB has ever recorded, dating back to 1993.


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