The Nation - News from May 1, 1985

Four more New York police officials, including the city’s third-ranking officer, are retiring in a shake-up prompted by police brutality charges, Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward announced. The reorganization, described as one of the most sweeping in the department’s history, included the departure of Chief of Patrol Hamilton Robinson, commander of the city’s 17,000-member patrol force, and three police commanders. The torture scandal surfaced last week when a teen-age suspect in a drug case charged that officers using an electronic stun gun burned him repeatedly.