An internal NYPD report obtained by the Daily News on the death of Eric Garner whitewashed key details of the arrest such as the improper chokehold and medical status of the 43-year-old Staten Island man. In interviews conducted by the police department soon after the incident, Sgt. Dhanan Saminath describes the cops “maintaining control of […]
This morning, NY1 aired a short report on sex trafficking in New York City, pointing out startling statistics regarding underage victims. The New York State Office of Children and Family Services says about 1,900 girls under the age of 18 are commercially sexually exploited in the city, some as young as 11 years old. Another 7,300 victims […]
A disturbing video the New York Daily News posted on its website Friday shows a plain-clothes police officer choking a Staten Island man, who later died. The video, captured by a civilian bystander, begins with 43-year-old Eric Garner telling the cops he “didn’t do shit,” and that he was “minding his business.” The tension escalates […]
Two weeks after Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was let out Rikers for elbowing an officer in Zuccotti Park, she was back in court on Thursday to answer unrelated charges that also happened to involve a confrontation with police reports the New York Times. In 2013, McMillan was arrested in Union Square subway station […]
The city has just announced a two-year, $1.5 million pilot program of the ShotSpotter’s gunshot detection systems, which will be installed on rooftops across the city. Within ten seconds, the sensors can triangulate the source of a gunshot sound within 2 feet, provided it wasn’t a false alert, like a firework. ShotSpotter offers: The purpose of the […]
Yesterday, we noted how excited some police commanders are about their new Twitter accounts sanctioned by the NYPD. It seems this might have been a little hasty on their part: the same day, Captain Thomas C. Harnisch of the 25th precinct, who was one of the first five police captains to be granted official social […]
Recently, NYPD precinct commanders were given a full day of training on how to use Twitter. The initiative to get them tweeting came after Deputy Inspector Ronald Leyson of the 110th precinct started using the social network as @NYPD110Pct to keep his local community updated. According to DNAinfo, the commanders are being allowed a lot […]
Last week, Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson said in a statement he would no longer be prosecuting most low level weed cases. He said this was a move to discourage the number of arrests made for non-violent possession charges, many of which are dismissed anyway. The NYPD has responded with their own memo, asserting that they […]
Earlier this week, it was widely reported that two New York City residents were arrested and charged with a felony for intimidating an NYPD helicopter with a flying camera, or as it is popularly referred to nowadays — a drone. “Sources” told the Daily News that Wilkins Mendoza, 34, and Remy Castro, 23, were operating […]
The NYPD arrested two men this week who are accused of flying a drone within 800 feet of a police helicopter. The men were operating the unmanned device near the George Washington Bridge and upon the approach of the helicopter, “continued to circle the bridge, forcing the chopper to change course to avoid it,” KXAN […]
