Tag: NYPD
In court documents filed this week, luxury retailer Barneys says it didn’t violate anyone’s civil rights by calling the police on a 20-year-old black man who bought an expensive belt from Barneys’ Madison Avenue flagship in 2013. “At most, (Barneys) is merely alleged to have notified the NYPD of plaintiff’s purchase. Simply providing information to […]
Four days after footage of a verbal tirade that a member of the NYPD’s Joint Terrorism Task Force unleashed on an Uber driver went viral, taxi and livery drivers rallied outside Penn Station to call attention to a plight that they say is a frequent occurrence. “This is common, this is happening all the time,” […]
Arrest quotas are illegal in New York State; Commissioner Bill Bratton has spoken out against them. One Staten Island precinct, however, is using a quota system for arrests and has even made a game out of it, a new lawsuit alleges. A dozen officers are suing the city, claiming that they are routinely denied both […]
On Tuesday, video of a man who claimed to be a cop harassing an Uber driver went viral, drawing public outcry. The incident happened Monday on the West Side Highway, where the officer was recorded by the driver’s backseat passenger yelling things like “How long have you been in this country?” and “Who do you […]
As it stands, you pretty much have to dig through the trash, as ANIMAL did, to find the set of rules patrolling officers are meant to obey while on duty. But one lawmaker wants to change that. The New York Daily News reports that Councilman Dan Garodnick (D-Manhattan) will be introducing legislation that requires the […]
The MTA and NYPD will be fast-tracking new security measures on the city’s bridges, CBS reported Thursday, thanks to ANIMAL’s photos of the Triborough Bridge. Authorities have been on alert over illicit bridge-climbing since last summer, when some artists climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and swapped the American flag at the top for a white one, […]
While he predicts that the number of cops on the streets of New York is going to increase this year, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says that the number of stop-and-frisks are going to decline. Bratton told the New York Daily News that the NYPD will have one million fewer interactions with the public “based primarily […]
A gray and white cat turned himself in on his own recognizance to the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights yesterday, DNAinfo reports. Officers took to Twitter to try to find his owner after the cat waltzed into the building like he owns the place. “This cat walked into the 34 Pct today. Officer Andrea DiNella […]
ShotSpotter, the gunshot detection system introduced in New York City last week, is the NYPD’s newest high-tech tool against against gun violence. It comes with a lot of promise, primarily from one of its main proponents, Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned with a pledge to bring gunshot location technology to the city. “This new […]
Last month, Police Commissioner William Bratton recommended increasing the penalty for resisting arrest from a misdemeanor to a felony. This was a bad idea then, and now the bad idea is spreading to the State Senate. Democrat Tony Avella of Queens has proposed a bill that would create a felony “aggravated resisting arrest” charge for […]
