Staten Island, borough where Eric Garner died, has highest number of most-sued NYPD officers
BY BARRY PADDOCK , ROCCO PARASCANDOLA , SARAH RYLEY , DAREH GREGORIAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
It has the fewest people of any borough in the city, but it has big problems between police and the citizens they’re sworn to protect.
Staten Island, where Eric Garner died after a cop apparently placed him in a prohibited chokehold maneuver, tops the city as home to the highest number of officers on the most-sued list, a Daily News review has found.
Seven of the city’s top 10 most-sued officers — and 14 of the city’s top 50 most-sued officers — are assigned to a Staten Island narcotics unit working in the territory of the 120th Precinct, records show.
The precinct covers neighborhoods on the North Shore of the island, including the area near Tompkinsville Park where Garner, 43, died after a confrontation with Officer Daniel Pantaleo on July 17.
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