As part of a class action settlement, the City of New York will shell out $15 million to 22,000 people who were wrongly arrested for panhandling, a charge that was ruled unconstitutional since 1983. That comes out to about $681 for each person in the lawsuit which isn’t that much when you consider that some of them spent actual jail time for committing an act, that ultimately, was perfectly legal.
You’d think that if someone was arrested for a minor subway violation and kept in NYPD custody, painfully chained to a fence for 28 hours, there would be an uproar of “That’s unheard of!” Well, it’s heard of. Apparently, the NYPD has a habit of overenthusiastic arrests of transgender people and conducting strip-searches for the sole purpose of gawking at their genitals. Read more »
The NYPD made way too many bullshit weed busts last year according to the latest data cited by the Drug Policy Alliance from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. Compared to 2010, there was a .6% increase in 2011, bringing the total amount of small time pot arrests to 50,680. Read more »
Technically, it’s an anti-Muslim propaganda film that was shown on a “continuous loop” to NYPD recruits and other officers. According to the New York Times, it’s called The Third Jihad and was used for training purposes. I guess it’s easier for cops to spy on a certain segment of the population if they consider them the enemy.
The off-duty NYPD sergeant who was captured on video acting less than professional aboard a Greyhound bus and had to be removed by Philly police has been suspended without pay. Read more »
A New York City tabloid that no one respects often talks about how much the Occupy Wall Street movement costs the city in NYPD overtime, but can you really blame the police department’s overhanded tactics on protesters? Read more »
A Greyhound bus bound for New York from Philadelphia was delayed by about 30 minutes when an unruly passenger caught acting a fool refused to get off. As it turns out, the man was later identified as NYPD Sergeant Carlos Fabara, a 14 year veteran of the force and holder of a department record for civilian complaints. Read more »
A Brooklyn college student says he was the victim of an NYPD sting operation when he was duped him into buying a new iPhone for $20 and then arrested. According to Rob Tester, 19, the man selling the device said he needed the cash for Christmas and never mentioned it was stolen. After he handed over the money, FOUR undercover cops swooped in to make the bust. Read more »
Now that Occupy Wall Street’s encampment has been cleared out since mid-November and their activities significantly reduced, people are getting a little sick of the NYPD’s tourist unfriendly barricades surrounding Arturo DiModica’s famed “Charging Bull” sculpture in Lower Manhattan. Read more »
If you wondered where the New York Police Department’s horses go when they die — Kentucky. Well, some of them, like this former steed, bones peeled and lovingly assembled mid-prance in front of the Kentucky Horse Park’s International Museum of the Horse by NY prison-guard-turned-farrier Walter Varcoe. Read more »
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