Mamdani names four new CCRB members, replacing most of the mayor's seats on the police watchdog board

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday named four new members to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, replacing four of the five mayoral appointees on the city's independent police watchdog.

The new members are Reginald Greene, Lisa Hoyes, Lisa Landau and Wesner Pierre, according to the Mayor's Office. They replace John Siegal, Pat Smith, Sherene Crawford and Rahul Agarwal, City Hall confirmed to amNY. June Northern, appointed by former Mayor Eric Adams in 2023, stays on the board.

Who the new members are

• Reginald Greene: a mediator at JAMS who previously was an assistant district attorney and deputy chief of legislation and policy at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. He began as a Teach For America teacher and was founding principal of KIPP Philosophers Academy.
• Lisa Hoyes: assistant dean for public service at NYU School of Law, where she leads the Public Interest Law Center. She spent six years as an assistant federal defender and nearly eight at the Bronx Defenders.
• Lisa Landau: executive director of the Feerick Center for Social Justice at Fordham Law School, and a former general counsel of the city Health Department and chief of the state attorney general's Health Care Bureau.
• Wesner Pierre: CEO of Partnership With Children, a youth mental health nonprofit. At CAMBA he launched Brownsville In Violence Out, a community gun violence prevention program. He grew up in South Jamaica, Queens.

How the board works

The CCRB investigates complaints of police misconduct and recommends discipline. Its board has 15 seats: five appointed by the mayor, five by the City Council, three designated by the police commissioner, one by the public advocate, and a chair picked jointly by the mayor and the Council, according to the CCRB. Members serve three-year terms. Cases go to three-member panels with one mayoral, one Council and one police commissioner designee, and a panel can substantiate an allegation by a 2-1 vote.

As of Monday evening, the agency's online roster still listed the outgoing mayoral members and showed the Council's Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island seats as vacant.

The appointments come less than three months after Mamdani named Jennifer Jones Austin the board's first permanent chair in nearly six years, amNY reported. City Hall says the departing members' terms are expiring, and Jones Austin thanked them in the mayor's announcement.

Reaction

Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry criticized the exit of Pat Smith, whom Adams made interim chair shortly before leaving office, telling amNY she was the only mayoral member "with a voting record that was fair to police officers." Public Advocate Jumaane Williams praised the four picks in the city's release.

The NYPD told amNY it has agreed with about 92% of CCRB disciplinary recommendations this year. The CCRB's latest monthly report puts the department's discipline concurrence rate at 91.5% through September, up from 83.95% in 2025 and 30.34% in 2024, according to amNY.

The board shake-up follows Mamdani's announcement this month of the NYPD's first comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies in a decade.