The New York Daily News reports on “an internal NYPD directive” from February 6 that showed cops how they can use Siri to return lost iPhones to their original owners though the phone is locked. Apparently, the directive even outlined the steps (press the home button) and included what questions to ask. Now that every […]
In what sounds like a plot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the NYPD is reportedly cracking down on cops who are using personal radios to “anonymously mock” their superiors, reports the New York Post. The issue has become so pervasive that officers received an internal memo about it: An internal memo issued late last year reminded the […]
For an organization that has been so adamant on increasing its public surveillance, it is surprising and troubling that several NYPD precincts don’t have working security cameras. A new report by DNAinfo claims that “cameras outside police precinct stationhouses” are “not working in a number of cases, according to an NYPD source.” The point isn’t […]
A cellphone video of an all-out brawl instigated by officers at a festival in Sunset Park led to the prosecution dropping charges against a man accused by police to have assaulted them and resisted arrest. The disturbing video from September shows Officer Vincent Ciardiello hitting 22-year-old Jonathan Daza while the latter was restrained face-down on […]
At an NYPD trial on Thursday, a Brooklyn man says he was stopped-and-frisked and briefly cuffed for returning items at a Manhattan store on November 2012 (and no, it wasn’t Barney’s). His crime: shopping while black. After the encounter, part of which was captured on video by a passerby, Jermaine Johnakin filed a complaint against […]
The man who in December was shoved to the street by NYPD after attempting to dance behind them is suing the city, the New York Daily News reports. Alexander Nzebele, a self-described prankster who goes by Alexander BOK, was filming a now-viral video of himself dancing on the street for consideration in the Ellen Show […]
The NYPD does not want an apology. It has, instead, set its sights on a much bigger concession. A prize that gives the NYPD what it loves best: totalitarian power and felony arrest statistics. The nation’s largest police force now wants the mayor and our representatives in Albany to get down on their knees, beg […]
A Michigan man has been arrested for posting violent threats against police officers on Facebook, including against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who escaped charges for the death of Eric Garner last December. Alvaro Eduardo Guzman-Telles is being charged with charge of interstate transmission of threatening communications in federal court. According to the Detroit Free Press, […]
A grand jury has dismissed terrorist charges against a Brooklyn teenager who was arrested for posting a Facebook status of gun emojis pointed at police emojis. According to the criminal complaint, Osiris Aristy’s multiple social media posts “caused New York City police to fear for their safety,” prompting them to show up at his Bushwick […]
Arrests for the possession or small amounts of weed in New York City continue to decline sharply and it’s not because the NYPD is engaged in another slowdown — it’s because they’re finally following the law. Here’s some background: In 1977, weed was decriminalized in New York. According to the state law, possession of 25 […]
