Bronx man once convicted of triple murder, passed over by NYU for security job lands gig with NYPD watchdog

A Bronx man convicted in a 1972 triple murder who sued NYU for passing him over as a campus security guard has landed a gig with the NYPD’s internal watchdog, The Post has learned.Ronald Davidson is training to be an investigator with the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which looks into claims of police misconduct – a move that has riled police unions even as the candidate says he long ago turned his life around.“He was convicted of three homicides, so he should be disqualified from doing any investigations involving the NYPD and its members,” Vincent J.Vallelong, head of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, said in a statement.“He also should not have access to sensitive materials involving victims,” he continued, noting Davidson was scheduled to be a second seat in a case against a sergeant last week until the union protested it.Davidson was just 17-years-old when he killed three people, after the trio tried to rob him at knifepoint one August night on a New York City beach, according to a 2016 letter he penned to the parole board.“The combination of anabolic steroids, the flowing of adrenaline and my fear that my life was in danger and that I was going to get killed or at the very least seriously injured by these three men, led me to the worst decision and action of my life: To shoot these three men multiple times, thus ending their lives,” he wrote.He said the crimes have haunted him since. They’ve also allegedly torpedoed his job prospects, such as when New York University revoked a security officer position after a background check turned up his earlier convictions, the school’s student newspaper, The Washington Square News, wrote in December 2022.Police union officials said they’re ready to push back.“We will protest every time he is scheduled to sit in on a case against one of our members,” Vallelong said.

“If CCRB wants to hire him, they should do it for another position.”Patrick Hendry, the head of the NY...