New York investigators working with federal authorities also searched the chiefs’ offices at the department’s headquarters as part of an inquiry into whether they inappropriately accepted payments.
City officials manipulated public data for years and delayed reporting that homeless families had stayed overnight at an intake center instead of a shelter, according to a new investigation.
The Department of Investigation inquiry focuses on a violent exchange that the adviser, Timothy Pearson, had with security guards at a migrant shelter.
Protests in New York City have long helped shape social change in the United States, sometimes at a cost. A court settlement may change the dynamics of such events.