Retired NYPD Detective Specialist Anthony Planakis is one of those guys who, when he’s interested in something, learns everything there is to know on the subject. He has a lot of interests: photography, organic food, HVAC installation and maintenance. But his passion, since 1977, has been bees. He’s kept bees for years, first in Connecticut […]
Retired Detective Anthony “Tony Bees” Planakis, the NYPD’s former expert in bee crime, told the New York Post that he was forced into early retirement by jealous-ass haters: “I had no choice but to retire. I was blackballed,” he said. “I was accused of stealing the bees, making honey and profiting. Lieutenants were jealous of […]
Internal Affairs is investigating if Thomas Georgevitch, an accused police impersonator who had fake guns and badges and told his landlord he was an officer, had inappropriate access to the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct with the blessing of an NYPD lieutenant, the New York Daily News reports. According to witnesses, on multiple occasions Georgevitch chauffeured Lt. […]
The 100-pound Edward Snowden bust that was illegally placed in Fort Greene Park by a group of guerrilla artists on April 6th has been sitting in the NYPD’s 88th Precinct since it was confiscated, just hours after installation. Now, a group of activists are calling on the city to return the statue to the people […]
At a time when scrutiny toward police brutality and wrongdoing has reached an all time high, with new incidents popping up daily, the NYPD recently decided to get back in on the action. In a video uploaded to Facebook/YouTube by Diane Malikah Moomin Pinkston, a group of plainclothes officers can be seen forcing their way […]
Guess how much money the NYPD spent on psilocybin mushrooms? (Nope, guess higher). The answer: $13,368, according to DNAinfo. The NYPD bought all these hallucinogenics back in 2011 so the drug testing lab would have samples to compare against mushrooms seized from dealers. The NYPD also bought a bunch of MDMA, which they probably still […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
