NYPD officers patrolling private buildings must have reasonable suspicion a person is trespassing in order to stop him or her. A new internal memo, the New York Daily News reports, imposes a set of guidelines around the NYPD’s Operation Clean Halls initiative “apparently for the first time.” The controversial program started in 1991 as an […]
Capital has traced a number of Wikipedia edits to entries surrounding police brutality — including stop-and-frisk and the death of Eric Garner — to computers on the network of One Police Plaza, the NYPD’s headquarters. The crowdsourced encyclopedia is one of the most widely used sites on the web and relies on contributors to maintain […]
It just got a little bit harder for the NYPD to stop-and-frisk you for no reason. Well, at least on paper. Earlier this week, a memo was sent out to all officers stating new rules regarding stop-and-frisk policies, effective immediately, DNAinfo reported. Officers can no longer stop people based solely on “furtive movements,” or because […]
Zachary Tumin, the NYPD bigwig in charge of beefing up the NYPD’s social media presence, gave us all a lesson about how to NOT talk about mental illness when he tweeted this on Monday morning: This is a real problem, evrywhre. via @ThisIsFusion People off their meds r losing it &wlking into police bullets. http://t.co/VIEK72R75H […]
In the wake of the Eric Garner tragedy, the NYPD is teaching officers a new technique to subdue a suspect who is resisting arrest. DNAinfo reports that the method is called “Armbar Hammerlock,” a “martial arts and wrestling move focusing on restraining the arms of a resisting suspects to bring them down without grabbing the […]
A federal court has reinstated a lawsuit brought forward by an NYPD veteran who claims he was harassed after he complained that his precinct maintained illegal quotas. Craig Matthews first filed his lawsuit against the Bronx’s 42nd precinct in February 2012. He accused supervisors of implementing quotas for arrests, summonses and stop-and-frisks, tracked by color-coded […]
A Manhattan councilman has introduced a bill that would help drivers find vehicles that have been towed due to movie shoots, parades, construction or other planned events. When a car is taken to an impound lot over a normal parking violation, owners can locate their car via 311 or the Department of Transportation’s website. But […]
The NYPD is going through all sorts of exciting changes these days. Cops are learning how to use iPhones, send e-mails and be nice. Now, one councilman wants to bring them into the 21st century and get rid of the typewriters they still use. The New York Daily News reports that Councilman Danny Dromm (D-Queens) […]
Think Before You Hit Send: That’s the message police brass are sending to cops and civilian workers in the department ahead of issuing “official NYPD email accounts,” reports the Daily News. The emails are for work only according to the paper, and like the NYPD’s pilot Twitter program, guidelines are being given to officers to […]
New York City is working to curb unnecessary school suspensions with measures that aim to help students rather than just send them home or call 911, practices popular during the early tenure of the Bloomberg days. But considering that one part of the plan involves a partnership with the NYPD, it is unclear how much […]
