Tag: COPS
An order issued by NYPD administrators earlier this month instructed cops to stop using personal cell phones when on duty. The order told officers “that any video or audio created by any device, including a personal device becomes a record for legal purposes and is therefore subject to applicable evidentiary laws.” The notice was sent out one day […]
A high-up NYPD officer told the Post that he believes more people should be prosecuted for resisting arrest. An average of 13,500 “busts” are made a year, but only a few of them are prosecuted: “There is no legal consequence, and a lot of guys know it,” a high-ranking police official said. “If you resist arrest and get away, you’re […]
On Wednesday afternoon, I took a leisurely bike ride in Midtown to check out whether the NYPD’s “Operation Safe Cycle” was being enforced. Tourists, motorists and anyone with a pulse is on notice for the next two weeks — the city will ticket you if obstruct bicycle lanes, creating a hazard for riders. With a GoPro camera mounted atop […]
In Florida, Pedro Bravo is standing trial for the murder of former friend Christian Aguilar, who had started dating his ex-girlfriend. After missing for weeks, his body was found buried in a shallow grave in Levy Country. According to the Gainesville Sun and Palm Beach Report, on September 20, 2012 — the day the victim disappeared — the accused told iPhone’s Siri “I need to […]
Cyclists beware! Starting today through August 26th, the New York Police Department is launching Operation Safe Cycle. For two weeks, bike and pedestrian safety is “priority.” The AP reports that cops will be targeting those engaged in “disobeying traffic signals and signs; riding against traffic; riding on the sidewalk; and failure to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.” […]
The city has approved a $2 million lawsuit settlement for the wrongful death of Tamon Robinson. In April 2012, cops chased down the victim in their NYPD radio car for allegedly stealing “paving stones” outside Bayview Houses in Canarsie. Robinson was running away from the cop car on foot. The Daily News reports: The official police accident report contended that the radio car […]
Every afternoon during the week, like clockwork, a cacophony of horns start to honk incessantly and permeate our Hell’s Kitchen office as vehicles comes to a standstill for several blocks at West 44th Street and 11th Avenue. The majority of the drivers are New Jersey commuters darting for the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Cars, […]
Poster Boy is staying busy since adjusting a Chelsea parking lot billboard to read “WTF is street art anyway?” In mourning Eric Garner, the 43-year-old Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a plainclothes officer, the artist took to altering a police vehicle with a much more somber statement. On Flickr, he accompanied the image […]
A local reverend and community activist recently shared a pair of videos on his Facebook page of an NYPD officer placing what looks like a chokehold on a man in a Manhattan subway station, in a confrontation that occurred just days before the same physical tactic, which is prohibited by the police department, befell a […]
An internal NYPD report obtained by the Daily News on the death of Eric Garner whitewashed key details of the arrest such as the improper chokehold and medical status of the 43-year-old Staten Island man. In interviews conducted by the police department soon after the incident, Sgt. Dhanan Saminath describes the cops “maintaining control of […]
