NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban declined to discipline a high-ranking deputy chief accused of pulling a female protester’s hair and shoving her face into the ground in downtown Manhattan in 2020, records show. Caban’s decision came in October in the case of Deputy Chief Gerard Dowling of the NYPD’s Special Operations Bureau. Caban’s decision was included near the bottom of an oversight report made public last week by the Civilian Complaint Review Board. Caban elected to remove Dowling’s case from CCRB jurisdiction and decide on his own whether to discipline him. It was one of 11 cases Caban “re…
