Tag: NYPD
Six cops from Brooklyn’s 67th precinct are under investigation on suspicion of planting guns on men and fabricating informants. A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge has dismissed all charges against 53-year-old Jeffrey Herring, one of several men arrested under similarly suspicious circumstances by the group of officers, after they failed to produce a confidential informant in […]
While the majority of New Yorkers are so over protests against the police (57 – 35 percent), an even greater number aren’t cool with the police protesting at the funerals of two slain cops (69 – 27 percent), according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll. They’re also not feeling PBA president Patrick Lynch and his […]
Chaos broke out at a Patrolman’s Benevolent Association meeting on Tuesday. After weeks of bad blood between the de Blasio administration and the NYPD, things came to a head at the union proceedings with many cops telling Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch that they would rather have more support in the field than continue a […]
For more than a month, protestors held die-in demonstrations nightly at Grand Central Terminal to bring awareness to the choke hold death of Eric Garner — among other police brutality cases — but then the MTA announced a ban on the practice. After a brief hiatus, demonstrators returned to the bustling transit hub Monday night […]
Two civil rights groups will argue their appeal to overturn a court’s decision that allowed the NYPD to surveil Muslim communities as part of an anti-terrorism campaign. Muslim Advocates and the Center for Constitutional Rights will convene in a Philadelphia courtroom on Tuesday to make their case that the NYPD violated the rights of Muslims by profiling […]
Hope you had your fun in NYC’s streets while you could, because the NYPD slowdown may be coming to an end. On Monday, the NYPD released its most recent arrest and ticketing statistics, which revealed an uptick in activity. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who recently acknowledged the slowdown, said at a news conference, “We are […]
As the city is still reeling from a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner in December, a new report on excessive force by the NYPD’s inspector general finds that the NYPD and the independent review board are often not on the same […]
In the past 48 hours, we’ve seen scaremongering tactics in NYC reminiscent of the 1970s, this time aimed at City Hall and supporters of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Cops and NYPD union heads are reportedly spreading rumors and propaganda about de Blasio, who has ruffled their feathers by supporting peaceful protests for Eric Garner, suggesting […]
For a second week in a row, the NYPD isn’t working. From this period last year, arrests are down by 56%, and summonses for petty crimes are down a whopping 92% — from 4,077 to just 347. The sudden dip in activity seems to part fear for safety and part protest against Mayor Bill de […]
Police have found disturbing graffiti in a Queens basement that says local officers will be “Next to Die.” The graffiti, found in the Pomonok House on Parsons Boulevard, reads, “PSA-9 ‘n’ 107 Pct R Next to Die.” It refers to Police Service Area 9, a unit that oversees the housing project in the 107th Precinct […]
