Tag: Crime
WCBS’s Alex Silverman reports that the man who viciously attacked two gay men with a chair in a Chelsea barbecue restaurant on May 5 has been identified as Bayna El-Amin. According to Silverman, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce called El-Amin a “career criminal,” and a Google search turns up arrest records in New York […]
As part of a new initiative, NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday unveiled the latest in high tech, state-of-the-art policing: a ginormous van that will put suspects on blast by rolling video of them on side-mounted screens. Bratton made the announcement at 11 AM on Tuesday at Harlem’s 28th Precinct. ABC reports that the […]
Police are attempting to track down seven people in connection with a brutal assault at a Unionport deli in the early hours of Sunday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Around 4:25 AM on Sunday, a verbal dispute turned into a one-sided attack at 1253 Deli on Castle Hill Avenue. Two women and five […]
A new study reiterates what activists, critics of our judicial system, and other researchers have been saying for years: there is a stark racial bias against black people — particularly black men — in America’s capital punishment system. While existing research supports this claim, new research by UNC professor Frank Baumgartner, PhD student Amanda Grigg […]
As of late Thursday night, the NYPD had not investigated a murder since February 1, leaving NYC without any reported murders for 11 days. That’s a “modern record,” according to the New York Daily News: The city is in the midst of a murder-free stretch that snapped the “modern-day” record at midnight Thursday. NYPD officials […]
The NYPD’s slowdown, which has resulted in a more than 90% drop in summonses for low-level offenses and parking tickets from this time last year, is costing the city $10 million dollars in revenue a week. Though NYPD union heads deny that the slowdown is related to the NYPD’s ongoing clash with Mayor Bill de […]
While the rest of the city is celebrating that the NYPD slowdown hasn’t given way to a spike in serious crime, robberies are up in one Brooklyn neighborhood. DNAinfo reports that residents of North Williamsburg and Greenpoint have seen a nearly 24% rise in burglaries — the neighborhood’s biggest criminal issue — in the past […]
I know that Law & Order: SVU is highly addictive, but you may want to switch up your Netflix rotation because it’s also making you paranoid. A new study by Chapman University has found that the more true crime television Americans watch, “higher their levels of fear” over terrorist attacks, cybersecurity issues, personal safety, and […]
Crime in New York has gone down, but misdemeanor arrests are on the rise, concludes a comprehensive report [PDF] that culls through New York state and city arrest data from the past three decades. The New York Times reported on the 114-page study, put out by John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Tuesday, describing […]
Controversial signs banning hoodies from stores, first spotted in Harlem, are now cropping up in shops in Fort Greene, reports DNAinfo. The signs, pictured above, read: “DO NOT ENTER WITH HOODIE OR MASK/IF SO YOU ARE NOW TRESPASSING.” They are intended to deter masked shoplifters or robbers — who are often difficult to identify because […]
