NYCLU released its analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 stop-and-frisk statistics Wednesday. Briefly, here’s how the numbers look: -The department stopped people 532,911 times in 2012. -Ninety percent of people stopped were innocent, ie. not arrested or ticketed. -Eighty-seven percent of people stopped were black or Latino. -Ten percent of people were white. -In the ten precincts […]
Yesterday we told you the federal civil rights trial of stop-and-frisk was drawing to a close, and that Judge Shira Scheindlin gave an interview saying that she wouldn’t go soft on the city government just because it’s the city government. Today, we’re pleased to say that the judge was true to her word. During yesterday’s closing […]
The NYPD is on the scene in Hell’s Kitchen to protect, serve, and text while driving a tow truck. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
After nine weeks of testimony from about a dozen men who believe they’ve been wrongly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, the federal civil rights trial of the police department practice will come to a close. After each side gives a summation of its case today, judge Shira Scheindlin will review the trial record, then […]
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, […]
Great news! NYC has seen a decrease in violent crime during the first quarter of the year, with shootings and murders dropping by 24% and 40%, respectively. Incidentally, the number of Stop-and-Frisks carried out by the NYPD has also gone down significantly during this time period. “From January 1 through March 31 of this year, […]
When Mayor Bloomberg gave his seething defense of stop-and-frisk this week, one thing he touched on was the murder of Alphonza Bryant, a 17-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx last month. Opponents of the stop-and-frisk would allow more deaths like Bryant’s, Bloomberg’s logic went, because the controversial NYPD practice curtails gun violence. Jenaii […]
Mayor Bloomberg has just had it up to here with you bullies who are constantly attacking the NYPD over stop-and-frisk. Yesterday, the mayor gave a big, blustery speech at police headquarters to let the media, mayoral candidates, and plaintiffs in lawsuits against the department past and present that this aggression would not stand. He also […]
What would a chemical attack on NYC look like? How would poisonous gases spread, through the lines of the subway and above ground? These are some of the questions the NYPD and a team of researchers hope to answer this July, when they’ll disperse colorless, odorless, and apparently harmless gases called perflourocarbons around the city […]
Over the weekend, we learned that the Manhattan district attorney will not prosecute NYPD Deputy Inspectors Anthony Bologna and Johnny Cardona, who were caught on video respectively pepper spraying and punching peaceful Occupy Wall Street protesters in Fall 2011. Fortunately, there’s still the prospect of holding the two cops accountable, in the form of a […]
