Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed the NYPD last week to complete a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and procedures as he seeks several new accountability measures for officers accused of excessive force, a City Hall spokesperson said Sunday.  One change already underway at the NYPD, according to the spokesperson, would make it harder for an officer to retire with an NYPD pension before their disciplinary process has played out.   The NYPD declined to comment on the mayor’s directive, referring NBC New York back to City Hall for comment. The police union said it was merely a play to score points with Mamdani’s anti-police supporters.    City Hall announced details of the mayor’s new accountability push on Sunday, soon after criticism of Mamdani’s NYPD flared within his political base over Thursday’s ICE shooting in Marble Hill and the police department’s handling of ensuing protests.   But a City Hall spokesperson said the accountability changes had already been planned — and the NYPD informed of the directive — before last Thursday. The spokesperson said Mamdani had notified the NYPD earlier in the week that he wanted a thorough use-of-force review that would assess encounters with people experiencing mental health crises. Mamdani’s written statements suggest the impetus involved another, less publicized issue also coming to a head last Thursday. At a news conference that day, the family of Win Rozario — a Queens teenager fatally shot five times by police during a 2024 mental health emergency — said the Mamdani administration had “betrayed” them by allowing one of the officers who had responded to their son’s 911 call, Officer Salvatore Alongi, to retire with a disability pension before facing a disciplinary trial.  Rozario’s parents fumed after NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued a statement acknowledging “human error” by an unnamed NYPD employee who had failed to flag Officer Alongi’s disability pension request to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which was in the process of initiating excessive force charges against him.  “When we make a mistake, we need to acknowledge it,” Commissioner Tisch said, apologizing. An NYPD spokesperson said the department has now revamped its notification system and that in future cases, pension applications would be “tabled” and disciplinary proceedings expedited to avoid a recurrence. The NYPD spokesman said the employee who had failed to notify the CCRB was demoted with a pay cut and no longer has responsibility over disciplinary cases.  “We have an obligation to Win’s family and to every New Yorker who calls for help in a moment of crisis,” Mamdani said in a statement. The mayor said the following additional steps would be taken to hold officers accused of misconduct accountable: Share personnel information with the State’s Criminal Justice Division to make it harder for officers to find other law enforcement jobs when they leave the NYPD with serious disciplinary charges pending. Add $2.6 million to the Department of Investigation’s budget for NYPD oversight, which Mamdani’s DOI commissioner Nadia Shihata said would “reestablish robust oversight of policing in New York City.” Develop a standardized plan to share information about incidents with the public and family members of people injured or killed in cases of alleged misconduct. “This review is about making sure our policies reflect that responsibility, that our officers have the guidance and training they need and that New Yorkers and their families can trust their city will treat them with care and dignity,” Mamdani said. A spokesman for the NYPD officers’ union said if the mayor wants to review the NYPD’s use-of-force policies, he should also review what he calls the CCRB’s “blatantly biased interpretation” of them.  “We have brought several examples of anti-police bias to the attention of the mayor and his team and we’ve seen zero meaningful action,” said PBA Spokesman Patrick Hendry. “The mayor’s radical base wants a wholesale dismantling of the NYPD and it’s clear this announcement is an attempt to appease them.” In December 2025, the State Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations declined to pursue criminal charges against the two officers who shot Rozario saying, “a prosecutor would not be able to disprove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers’ actions were justified under New York State law.” OSI said their review of the evidence, including body cam video showed that Rosario had approached the officers with a pair of scissors and had refused the officers’ commands to drop the scissors. On Friday, the New York Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America demanded Mayor Mamdani fire Commissioner Tisch unless she forces ICE out of the New York City. It’s unclear what authority the NYPD would have to do that. Tisch insists the NYPD was not present at the time of the shooting nor involved in ICE’s efforts to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal allegedly over suspected gang involvement. In an interview on MS Now Sunday, Mamdani said he and Tisch would conduct a review of NYPD’s response to the ICE shooting and its handling of the protests that followed. In response to calls for Tisch to step down, Mamdani has stood by Tisch, saying there are no plans to replace her. ...read more read less