Tag: nypd slowdown
Five days after Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD slowdown has ended, the city’s courthouses have indeed seen a “striking increase” in activity, reports the New York Daily News. The paper reports: “Low-level offenses are coming back through the system,” said Catherine Griffin, arraignments supervisor for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. “Two […]
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 […]
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, […]
