Despite a marked reduction in the amount of stop-and-frisks conducted by city cops, overall crime has decreased, but there has been a slight increase in shootings this year and so the NYPD is going to study the data to see if there’s any correlation. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, Police Commissioner Bratton has […]
“It doesn’t matter if you believe or not, it doesn’t withdraw you from the battle,” says former NYPD sergeant Ralph Sarchie, “a highly regarded demonologist.” This mini-documentary style clip is being released to promote Deliver Us From Evil, a Hollywood film starring Eric Bana based on the novel of the same name, based on the “100% true accounts” of […]
Artists adorning walls with their unsanctioned work in Brooklyn should be on alert that it’s not just the NYPD who’s out hunting for them. The Shomrim, an all volunteer force that patrols Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, helped the cops arrest five people for graffiti in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday. All of the […]
In Harlem last week, NYPD officers arrested 40 people suspected to be associated with two rival gangs in the area. The arrests took place during a massive raid of two project buildings. On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Daryl Khan, New York bureau chief of the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and a CUNY journalism professor, reported on […]
According to a new report from the Marijuana Arrest Research Project (PDF), in the first four months of 2014, the NYPD made 80 low level weed possession arrests a day. Despite efforts to change this and Mayor de Blasio’s calling the arrest policy “unjust and wrong,” statistics have stayed the same as in 2013. What’s more […]
NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure started work last week, and to welcome him to the job, Communities United for Police Reform compiled a list of police problems that need fixing. The grievances are sadly predictable: lack of transparency, surveillance of Muslims, excessive force, use of condoms as evidence in sex work cases. The organzation also points […]
Cops arrest more people for pot in New York than in almost any other state. And arrests for possession of small amounts are on the rise in NYC, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to focus on larger crimes. Yesterday, at a press conference outside One Police Plaza, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries asked the NYPD and […]
In an expansion of a program that’s been running in Staten Island for about a month, cops across the city will begin carrying naloxone, a potentially life-saving drug that combats opiate overdoses. Given that heroin use is on the upswing nationwide and in NYC, it’s a prudent, laudable move. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office will subsidize […]
It was a bloody weekend for the NYPD, as cops shot three people between Friday and Sunday, killing two. The first shots happened Friday afternoon, when cops pursued Scott Kato after he robbed an Upper East Side pharmacy, using a decoy pill bottle to track him. Kato allegedly reached for his gun in the ensuing chase, […]
Last night, an Instagram account ostensibly belonging to the NYPD Vandal Squad began following graffiti writers, photographers, and city institutions (they followed ANIMAL this morning). But even for the Vandal Squad — notorious among writers for their seemingly fanboyish attitude toward graffiti and willingness to steal photos — it seemed a little too brazen to be […]
