Tag: NYPD
NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure started work last week, and to welcome him to the job, Communities United for Police Reform compiled a list of police problems that need fixing. The grievances are sadly predictable: lack of transparency, surveillance of Muslims, excessive force, use of condoms as evidence in sex work cases. The organzation also points […]
Cops arrest more people for pot in New York than in almost any other state. And arrests for possession of small amounts are on the rise in NYC, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to focus on larger crimes. Yesterday, at a press conference outside One Police Plaza, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries asked the NYPD and […]
In an expansion of a program that’s been running in Staten Island for about a month, cops across the city will begin carrying naloxone, a potentially life-saving drug that combats opiate overdoses. Given that heroin use is on the upswing nationwide and in NYC, it’s a prudent, laudable move. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office will subsidize […]
In an effort to curtail unsafe driving, the NYPD handed out 4,814 speeding tickets during a crackdown this Tuesday and Wednesday. Brooklyn was apparently the speediest borough this week, with 1,249 of those tickets. Queens came next with 1,219, followed by Manhattan with 1,175, the Bronx with 782, and Staten Island with 389. Last week, officers handed out 5,258 summonses […]
Keep up the good work, graffiti writers. Bill Bratton is very bothered by your exploits along the Long Island Expressway in Queens. “I have a weekend house out in Long Island, and I go out of my mind when I go back and forth on the LIE and I see that . . . graffiti […]
Saturday night, NYPD officers smashed a handcuffed 14-year-old’s head through a hookah shop window in the Bronx, according to witnesses. Javier Payne suffered a punctured lung and was critically bleeding after the incident, according to the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and was rushed to the Jacobi Medical Center. No security footage exists, but according to Nageib Aldaylam, owner of […]
It was a bloody weekend for the NYPD, as cops shot three people between Friday and Sunday, killing two. The first shots happened Friday afternoon, when cops pursued Scott Kato after he robbed an Upper East Side pharmacy, using a decoy pill bottle to track him. Kato allegedly reached for his gun in the ensuing chase, […]
For a brief moment earlier this week, graffiti writers, photographers, and enthusiasts were freaked out at the specter of an NYPD Vandal Squad Instagram account. ANIMAL reached out to the squad to inquire about the account’s veracity, who told us they “wouldn’t allow such a thing on Instagram.” Clearly, this was some sort of hoax. […]
Last night, an Instagram account ostensibly belonging to the NYPD Vandal Squad began following graffiti writers, photographers, and city institutions (they followed ANIMAL this morning). But even for the Vandal Squad — notorious among writers for their seemingly fanboyish attitude toward graffiti and willingness to steal photos — it seemed a little too brazen to be […]
Yesterday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD will stop using condoms as evidence for prostitution arrests, a change advocates have been pushing for years. The policy shift will allow cops to continue using condoms as evidence in sex trafficking cases. “This is a reasonable approach to targeting the most at-risk community as it […]
