Department of Investigation eyes NYPD disability pensions

This post was originally published on Politico.

A New York City Department of Investigation report found that the city's police pension system is vulnerable to abuse.

HELP! I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN GET UP: A report from the New York City Department of Investigation confirmed today what many political watchers have long suspected — that the city’s police pension system is ripe for abuse.

The Police Pension Fund doles out retirement payments to all NYPD officers and, in fiscal year 2025, paid $935 million to officers who qualified for accident disability retirement — meaning they were injured on the job and unable to perform their duties.

While DOI Commissioner Nadia Shihata said injured officers should be fairly compensated, her office found the pension system assigns this