Dodging your fare may get more difficult soon, as the NYPD is beginning self-defense training for cab drivers. According to the Post, the regimen will include strategies for dealing with “violent passengers and farebeaters” as well as “handling high-stress situations that could lead to road rage and accidents.” Training will also include what a driver should do […]
The NYPD has a dodgy history with the Freedom of Information Act. According to reporter Sean Musgrave, the department tends to simply ignore any requests for disclosure it receives from journalists, despite being required by law to honor them. As Musgrave points out, even the NSA has a better FOIA record. To make sense of […]
The NYPD’s ill-advised bid to issue more jaywalking tickets as a safety measure after a spat of traffic deaths on the Upper West Side isn’t going so well. As Streetsblog reports, cops cited pedestrians on New York State Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 1152, legislation that’s superseded by city law, and sent them to criminal court, […]
Not everyone is cut out to sell drugs. Take Frank Giardina. The 49-year-old man was busted in his Queens apartment on Friday after making some of the dumbest mistakes humanity has ever witnessed: #1) He was blasting music, which normally isn’t too big a deal, except when there’s a drug-dealer-amount-of-narcotics on the premises. #2) When […]
Passengers at the Times Square-42nd Street station tattled on two clowns Wednesday night leading to the subway performers’ arrest. Since the two didn’t have permits, they were charged with “loitering with the purpose of entertaining,” and hauled off to a Midtown police station. Though they seemed in good spirits. “They sang the Beatles song ‘Goodnight’ […]
After video of a group of police officers harassing a man over an allegedly unpaid bus fare received tens of thousands of shares on Facebook and significant media coverage, the NYPD said it would investigate the incident. The clip shows a man being arrested after getting off the Bx12 bus Sunday. The cops seem to […]
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey just conducted its first study on stop-and-frisk in Newark, and while much is left to be learned, one thing seems clear: in terms of results, Newark cops are better at it than the NYPD. In the city across the Hudson, about 25 percent of stops result in […]
See that sign in the window of this old Chevy van? The “MSTF”stands for Midtown South Task Force, a NYPD unit that occupies a stationhouse on 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenue. It’s also a designation that you’ll find on all their police vehicles. This one was sitting out front Friday night. If it […]
On Friday, the New York Post “reported” the following story that likely made even the staunchest of NYPD supporters gasp in horror: Two Brooklyn cops sideswiped a parked SUV, then arrested a man sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, accusing him of damaging their car, a suit charges. And the officers would have […]
Police commissioner Bill Bratton announced this week that the NYPD will begin enforcing rules to ensure horse-and-carriage rides are done in as humane a fashion as possible. Previously, that duty was held by the ASPCA. According to CBS, cops will conduct stable inspections and are “trying to figure out how police will enforce rules banning […]
