On May 4th, there were two huge, tragic, and conflicting stories in New York City. One was the death of Officer Brian Moore, who was shot in the head in the line of duty on Saturday and succumbed to his injuries on Monday. The other was the non-indictment of Willie Groomes, the retired corrections officer […]
For the past 14 years, since 9/11, residents of Park Row have been forced to cross through this NYPD security checkpoint to enter their buildings. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Another day, another video of the NYPD being awful. In this video, uploaded to YouTube on April 30 by the man being arrested, two officers in the Bronx are seen illegally arresting a man during a traffic stop. The man set his phone camera to record and put it in the cupholder, which the cops […]
The Daily News sent a reporter to Manhattan summons court to talk to people who were there for minor quality-of-life offenses, and the near-unanimous verdict is that broken windows policing is dumb. “It’s a waste of time,” said a man named Michael Joseph, 42, who was there to combat a ticket for not paying a […]
A commanding officer implicated in the 2009 NYPD whistleblowing scandal is apparently more concerned about a student film’s fictionalized account of his leadership’s effect on his reputation than the fact that he pressured his officers to take unnecessary and illegal action in order to meet their quotas. The New York Daily News reports that a […]
Over 100 people were arrested during protests for Freddie Gray in Manhattan on Wednesday evening. Demonstrators assembled in Union Square and held signs that read “Blue Lies Matter” and “Broken Windows Severs Spines,” among other placards showing solidarity with Baltimore and Gray, an unarmed black man who died after being injured while in police custody. […]
Maybe you have a cousin who’s a bad influence and gets you in trouble. Maybe you are that cousin to someone else. In any case, every family has a troublemaker, and that cousin is convenient scapegoat when you get caught. A guy in the Bronx used that excuse when he got caught 5 miles away […]
The New Yorker has released 6 minutes of security camera footage from inside Rikers, giving the public a rare and disturbing glimpse into the prison’s “deep-seated culture of violence,” as a report by the United States attorney in Manhattan called it. The video shows two incidents that happened to Kalief Browder, who was arrested in […]
A bill that would enable the state attorney general to investigate deaths of unarmed civilians in altercations with the police has failed in the state Senate. Capital reports that it was “voted down 20-16” in the GOP-led Senate Finance Committee. The bill was proposed by Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins after Eric Garner died at […]
Environmentalist Christopher Swain had the best intentions when he set out to the swim the entirety of the highly toxic Gowanus Canal on Wednesday afternoon. Due to some poor planning, logistical issues and an overly concerned NYPD, the event was delayed by over an hour. Although he eventually took a dip in the historic waterway, […]
