NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday is expected to announce a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while announcing changes he says will improve police accountability.

The changes include the implementation of a new system that would make sure officers complete any ongoing disciplinary processes before they retire — a change that would have aided the family of Win Rozario, a 19-year-old shot and killed by NYPD officers while in the throes of a mental health crisis.

“When the government uses force against a New Yorker, the standard for accountability must be at its highest,” Mamdani said in a statement. “Every New Yorker deserves to know that force will be used lawfully, carefully and only when necessary. We have an obligation to Win’s family and to every New Yorker who calls for help in a moment of crisis.”

Rozario’s family held a rally outside City Hall last Thursday after discovering that one of the officers involved in the shooting was allowed to retire, enabling him to avoid the upcoming disciplinary trial over Win’s death. NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch admitted in a statement that the department failed to notify the Civilian Complaint Review Board that the officer had filed for retirement, violating department guidelines in these matters, and blamed the mistake on “human error.”

Speakers at the rally said they felt “betrayed” and “lied to” by Mamdani, who has faced criticism for being slow to enact some of his pledged changes to public safety. The family was joined at the rally by several Mamdani allies, including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Council members Alexa Avilés and Sandy Nurse.

The new system establishes more communication and notifications between the NYPD and the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city agency that investigates police misconduct, with the goal of not letting disciplinary charges get overlooked.

Other changes include a move to close a loophole where officers who leave the NYPD while facing serious disciplinary charges could get rehired by other law enforcement agencies in the state. They also call for an additional $2.6 million in funding be allocated to the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD.

City Department of Investigation Commissioner Nadia Shihata, who oversees the office of the Inspector General, said in a statement she was “thrilled” by the additional funding.

“These funds will allow DOI to fully staff and re-establish robust oversight of policing in New York City — one of my top priorities as DOI Commissioner,” Shihata said. “I am very pleased that DOI can move forward with this objective — one that supports effective policing, protects our civil rights and freedoms, and builds stronger police-community relations.”

Asked for comment of the reforms, a spokesperson for the NYPD repeated Tisch’s statement on Rozario’s death.

Department officials said CCRB investigators determined that the officers involved in the Rozario shooting acted within department guidelines, but the agency’s board voted to substantiate disciplinary charges.

“There should be no review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies without a corresponding review of the blatantly biased and unjust way those policies are interpreted by the Civilian Complaint Review Board,” Patrick Hendry, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, said Sunday. “We have brought several examples of CCRB’s dysfunction and anti-police bias to the attention of the mayor and his team, and we’ve seen zero meaningful action in those areas.

“The mayor’s radical base wants a wholesale dismantling of the NYPD, and it’s clear this announcement is an attempt to appease them,” Hendry said. “It won’t work, and it won’t make New Yorkers any safer.”

Public safety advocates have expressed frustration with the mayor, who ran on fundamentally altering public safety in the city. On the campaign trail, Mamdani pledged to disband a controversial NYPD unit, the Strategic Response Group, end the use of the gang database and implement a Department of Community Safety, which is currently operating as an office. He’s also retained Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who was appointed by ex-Mayor Eric Adams.

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