Buffalo committee questions Commissioner Macy on handling of Granville crash investigation

Acting Buffalo Police Commissioner Macy told the City Council’s Committee on Police Oversight on April 22 that he was not part of the final investigative or disciplinary decision-making in the 2024 Granville crash case and could only describe his limited, personal involvement.

Macy said he received two phone calls while serving as chief of detectives on the night in question and that the subpoenaed call records reviewed by the department showed a far larger set of communications. "There is call records in there," Macy said, noting that on April 12 alone Lieutenant Esquilin’s phone logged 195 incoming and outgoing communications and that committee staff had asked him about eight specific calls. He described two calls he remembered as focusing on whether a vehicle should be impounded and how tickets and towing should be handled.

The question-and-answer session centered on what Esquilin told Macy at the time. Macy said he was not told the…