Press reports at the time indicated that Mayor Frank X. Schwab had distributed official badges to his friends causing confusion.

[11] BPD was formerly arranged with stations into "precincts" like the NYPD (total 17) but this was replaced with five districts and subdivided into sectors.

In 2018, the BPD, along with the Buffalo Fire Department, moved into a new joint headquarters building in the former Michael J. Dillon Federal Courthouse.

For her intervention, she was fired and lost her pension one year before it went into effect,[17][4] whereas Kwiatkowski was shortly thereafter promoted to lieutenant.

[25][22] In 2020, in the wake of George Floyd protests, including the Niagara Square shoving incident, white-shoe law firm Kirkland & Ellis launched an action for reinstatement on behalf of Horne.

[26] On April 13, 2021, a state court judge vindicated Horne, granting her the back pay and benefits that the BPD had denied her.

[28] On June 4, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in New York state, police officers from the Buffalo Police Department pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino during a confrontation in Buffalo's Niagara Square, causing him to fall to the ground which left him bleeding from the ear.

[30] He suffered a brain injury as a result of the fall and was still unable to walk nearly two weeks after the assault.

[31][32] Following the incident, Buffalo mayor Byron Brown announced impending changes to the BPD.