NYC cop watchdog group member compared police to KKK, outraged NYPD union reveals

An investigator at the Civilian Complaint Review Board comparing NYPD officers to the Klan isn't some off-hand tweet you can wave away as venting. This is someone who sits in judgment on cops, deciding whether their conduct crosses a line, while apparently believing the whole institution is morally equivalent to a lynch mob. That's not oversight. That's a thumb on the scale before a single complaint file crosses the desk.

The detectives' union is right to be furious, and honestly they're being restrained about it. If a cop had posted something comparing a civilian oversight board to a terrorist organization, we all know how fast that story would move and how many calls for resignation would follow by lunchtime. The standard can't bend depending on who's saying the ugly thing.

CCRB was built on the premise of neutral review, the idea that New Yorkers deserve someone impartial looking at police conduct. Bility's comments torch that premise. You cannot claim to referee fairly while telling the world, in effect, that one side is wearing white hoods. Every case this person has touched now has a credibility problem, and the board knows it.

New York has real, serious conversations to have about policing. Comparing officers to the KKK isn't part of that conversation, it's an insult dressed up as commentary. The CCRB needs to explain why someone who thinks this way was ever cleared to sit on complaints against the people she's supposed to judge fairly.