NEW YORK, NY September 15, 2007 —WNYC has learned that the Civilian Complaint Review Board has turned to the Bloomberg Administration to help resolve a dispute about what constitutes police misconduct. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.

HENNELLY: Last year well over 7,000 civilian complaints were filed but just 264 were substantiated by the CCRB and refereed on to the police for action. The current controversy is over what happens to those complaints that do make it to the police department for follow-up.

Historically, just a handful of the CCRB substantiated complaints got rejected by the police, but in the first half of this year dozens were shot down. In June alone, 59 percent of the referrals were rejected by the NYPD.

For its part, the police department contends the Review Board's legal work is faulty and unfair to police officers, a charge the CCRB denies. Now the CCRB wants Mayor Bloomberg's criminal justice coordinator John Feinblatt to weigh in. He has requested a sample of the cases rejected by the Police.

For WNYC I am Bob Hennelly.