Legislative Corner – New York’s First Animal Cruelty Prosecutions Unit
Government Actions Helping Animals
Credit Terri Osborne of Investigation Discovery – Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown has done something that has never been done in the city of New York: formed the city’s first Animal Cruelty Prosecutions Unit. The unit, which will be led by Attorney Nicoletta Cafierri, will focus on investigating and prosecuting animal abuse cases in the NYC borough of Queens.
They will also work in conjunction with the newly developed Animal Cruelty Investigations Squad in the NYPD (which also serves the law enforcement function for the ASPCA as of July 2014) in educational efforts in the community that will be geared toward helping residents’ spot animal abuse. This new unit will condense animal abuse cases into one department. In the past, such cases had been handled by different areas of the DA’s office. For more information and additional links on this subject go to:
http://crimefeed.com/2016/01/historic-animal-cruelty-prosecutions-unit-formed-new-york-city/
