Tag: NYPD
The above video shows the tail end of an incident yesterday in which NYPD officers allegedly slammed a 16-year-old girl’s face against the floor of a Downtown Brooklyn Chinese restaurant and threw a 15-year-old girl through the establishment’s front window, shattering it. According to witnesses, the altercation began when cops ordered everyone out of the […]
Dodging your fare may get more difficult soon, as the NYPD is beginning self-defense training for cab drivers. According to the Post, the regimen will include strategies for dealing with “violent passengers and farebeaters” as well as “handling high-stress situations that could lead to road rage and accidents.” Training will also include what a driver should do […]
The NYPD has a dodgy history with the Freedom of Information Act. According to reporter Sean Musgrave, the department tends to simply ignore any requests for disclosure it receives from journalists, despite being required by law to honor them. As Musgrave points out, even the NSA has a better FOIA record. To make sense of […]
The NYPD’s ill-advised bid to issue more jaywalking tickets as a safety measure after a spat of traffic deaths on the Upper West Side isn’t going so well. As Streetsblog reports, cops cited pedestrians on New York State Vehicle & Traffic Law Section 1152, legislation that’s superseded by city law, and sent them to criminal court, […]
Yet another dent in the argument that stop-and-frisk is a necessary tool for police to prevent violent crime: statistics show the number of stops is continuing to decline this year, and the number of murders, shootings, rapes, and robberies is declining as well. According to DNAinfo’s Murray Weiss, this quarter, the NYPD is on track to […]
The New York Times has the story of Oscar Smith, a seven-year veteran of the NYPD’s scuba diving team who’s filed a discrimination complaint against the department for the racially motivated harassment he says he encountered while working. Smith, who is black, says his initial application to join the dive team was turned down because, according to the […]
Passengers at the Times Square-42nd Street station tattled on two clowns Wednesday night leading to the subway performers’ arrest. Since the two didn’t have permits, they were charged with “loitering with the purpose of entertaining,” and hauled off to a Midtown police station. Though they seemed in good spirits. “They sang the Beatles song ‘Goodnight’ […]
A 22-year-old man was smoking a “pot cigar” on the corner of 10th Avenue and West 39th Street last Saturday night, when he was approached by a police officer. According to the police, he swallowed the “physical evidence” of his alleged infraction, while it was still lit. He is being charged with obstructing governmental administration and tampering […]
After video of a group of police officers harassing a man over an allegedly unpaid bus fare received tens of thousands of shares on Facebook and significant media coverage, the NYPD said it would investigate the incident. The clip shows a man being arrested after getting off the Bx12 bus Sunday. The cops seem to […]
See that sign in the window of this old Chevy van? The “MSTF”stands for Midtown South Task Force, a NYPD unit that occupies a stationhouse on 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenue. It’s also a designation that you’ll find on all their police vehicles. This one was sitting out front Friday night. If it […]
