For the past five months, an anonymous group called “Racism Still Exists” has been posting powerful billboards in bus shelters around Bed-Stuy, with the stated aim of “[illuminating] some of the ways in which racism operates in this country.” Their latest, spotted by photographer Stephanie Keith, is a poster that takes refreshingly direct aim at the […]
The recent legal blows to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactics may have department brass fearful for the policy’s future, as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gave a fire-and-brimstone sermon on the dangers of ending the practice at a press conference yesterday. “The things that we’re doing here are working and I would hate to see them […]
A federal monitor has submitted a guideline for NYPD behavioral standards that’s so basic it looks like it could be a poster in a 2nd grade classroom. That’s not an insult against the federal monitor who is overseeing NYPD reform, but against the cops, who sadly seem to need reminders like, “Remember most people are […]
Speaking to rich people at the Aspen Institute, chronic meddler of people’s affairs and former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg blasted Colorado for ending the prohibition on weed and regulating it like its more dangerous counterparts, tobacco and booze. Bloomberg had this to say about the measure that has allowed police to focus 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 […]
For months, tens of thousands of (mostly) peaceful protesters have demanded that the NYPD halt its Broken Windows theory of policing — a theory that mandates the enforcement of low level crimes as a way to prevent major crimes from taking place — resulting in a disproportionate amount of arrests amongst black and Hispanics. Well, […]
In a directive that came from Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office and that is being viewed through the prism of race, the NYPD has been told to stop arresting people for low-level amounts of weed, according to the New York Post. And of course the Post’s sources are spinning this as a move de Blasio […]
The federal ruling that deemed the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk tactics unconstitutional was a landmark decision, but the battle is far from over. Mayor Bloomberg, who recently said “I think we disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little,” already said he’s going to appeal the decision. In the meantime, to keep the pressure on, ANIMAL teamed […]
Just when we thought it was safe to assume that the NYPD’s decidedly unconstitutional Stop-and-Frisk policy might be on its way out, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced a major development yesterday: New York City, meet Scan-and-Frisk. A new scanning device– which detects terahertz, a heat energy naturally emitted by humans– is to be deployed by our […]
As tensions between citizens, protestors and the NYPD continue, a new report says that even cops fall victim to a system that many say intentionally targets minorities. Many blacks cops have stated that they were racially profiled by other cops when out of uniform. Reuters reports: Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the […]
