Brooklyn district attorney moves to dismiss nearly 400 convictions tied to dirty NYPD cops

NEW YORK — The Brooklyn district attorney’s office wants to vacate nearly 400 criminal convictions tied to 13 dirty New York Police Department officers. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said he didn’t find misconduct in the cases, but his prosecutors “no longer have confidence” in the work of the officers — who were convicted of crimes running the gamut from perjury to planting drugs to accepting bribes. Gonzalez’s office referred to the move as the sixth-largest mass dismissal of convictions in U.S. history. Prosecutors were in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon to request ...