BY BEN VERDE
Park Slope resident Angela
Sung Pinsky was announced
on Dec. 12 as the newest mayoral
appointee to the Citizens Complaint
Review Board, the largest
independent police oversight
board in the United States. We
caught up with the noted Sloper
to discuss her new role.
Ben Verde: What does your
role in the CCRB entail?
Angela Pinsky: I’m one of
13 board members, which after
the charter revision changes
go in to effect, I will be one of
14 board members. I am a mayoral
appointee on the CCRB
and my job is to weigh in on
cases and complaints that are
raised against the NYPD for
issues that fall under the acronym
FADO (Force, Abuse of
authority, Discourtesy, Offensive
language).
BV: What’s your background
and how has it prepared
you for this role?
AP: In a past life, I used to
work in healthcare, but in the
life that applies to public service,
I went to school at NYU
Wagner, and during my time
there I interned at the mayor’s
offi ce where I worked on the
Olympic bid and the re-zoning
of Greenpoint, Williamsburg,
and PlaNYC, which was the
city’s sustainability plan for
the next 23 years. After that,
I went to the real estate board
where I worked on a lot of construction
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and sustainability issues. And
then now I’m at Association
for a Better New York (ABNY)
where I’m the executive director.
In my role at ABNY, we do
a lot of public outreach, civic
engagement, and public education
around policy issues that
the city is facing either in the
city, state or national context.
BV: What appealed to you
about a role on the CCRB?
AP: I had served on a few
other boards for this mayoral
administration. I staffed
a bunch of boards when I was
working for the city. I fi nd every
role in the public sphere
to be important and I always
learn a lot in every role that
I’m in and it creates a better
sensitivity for me as I think
about how the city should move
forward. And so when this opportunity
arose and thinking
about the role that the CCRB
plays in the public safety and
the task and the community relations
between the police and
New Yorkers, I thought it was
too important to pass up.
BV: New regulations give
the CCRB easier access to body
cam footage from police offi
cers. How will this help the
board better do its job?
AP: I think it’s like any
other piece of information and
this one providing an objective,
non-subjective pieces of
information that the board can
assess for itself I think is critical.
And I think the deployment
of the cameras and everyone
getting used to the fact
that they exist, it’s something
that we’re probably midstream
on and I have not yet actually
viewed any myself. So again,
I’m sort of speaking a little bit
from a third party perspective.
I imagine, and the comments
that I’ve heard from the board
Slope resident Angela Sung Pinsky is the newest board member of the
CCRB. Photo by CCRB
is that it’s been very helpful so
far.
BV: What do you think the
board can do better and how do
you hope to improve it?
AP: This is pretty early on
in my tenure, so I don’t have a
lot of experience yet to be able
to inform that question, although
I may in a few months.
But one of the things that as a
citizen of New York, my observation
is that not a lot of people
know what the CCRB is and
what it does. And I think that
that in its nature it is providing
a service and a connection
for New Yorkers and if most
of them don’t know what it is
then that’s probably an issue
that needs to be addressed. I
noticed CCRB has done a tremendous
amount of outreach
in the past few years. They
are at community board meetings,
they are reaching out to
different organizations to try
and create awareness around
it and I think that that is going
to serve us very well and I hope
to be part of that outreach and
communication process.
Checkin’ in with new CCRB
member Angela Sung Pinsky
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