Tag: NYPD
On Friday, the New York Post “reported” the following story that likely made even the staunchest of NYPD supporters gasp in horror: Two Brooklyn cops sideswiped a parked SUV, then arrested a man sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle, accusing him of damaging their car, a suit charges. And the officers would have […]
Last April, two Keystone Cops NYPD officers were driving the wrong way down Watkins Street in Brownsville when they sideswiped a parked SUV belonging to a man named Robert Jackson’s girlfriend. Jackson was inside, and stepped out to ask the officers how’d they manage to run into him. Then, according to Jackson, the cop said […]
Police commissioner Bill Bratton announced this week that the NYPD will begin enforcing rules to ensure horse-and-carriage rides are done in as humane a fashion as possible. Previously, that duty was held by the ASPCA. According to CBS, cops will conduct stable inspections and are “trying to figure out how police will enforce rules banning […]
Well, this is terrifying, if inevitable: the NYPD is testing Google Glass to see whether cops could use the wearable technology while on patrol. “We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes,” a police official […]
One of Bill de Blasio’s key campaign promises involved ending the city’s appeal of a federal lawsuit aimed at the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, and now, he’s delivering on it. In a deal laid out by the mayor’s administration today, the city will accept a court-ordered monitor to oversee the NYPD for three years to ensure […]
As first reported by EVGrieve, a bunch of graffiti artists were busted in the East Village on Wednesday while painting a rooftop. The New York Post named CASH4 as one of the five who were arrested and since he was the only one ID’d by the tabloid, we’ll keep it at that. In 2012, CASH4 […]
For advocates of safer streets in New York City, the NYPD’s indifference to traffic violence is all but a given — why else would so few deaths go uninvestigated? Now, at least one police source is making that apathy explicit to the New York Post. Under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” plan, the department’s weekly TrafficStat […]
In an effort to put more cops on the street, as many as two dozen police officers who lost their guns after shootings could be de-armed under a new plan from NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, the Daily News is reporting. Cops are put under modified duty any time they fire their weapons on the job while the department […]
The NYPD’s latest big internal investigation was not sparked by some unwarranted stop-and-frisk, or the bloodying of an 84-year-old man, but a couple of empty beer cans found in a stationhouse. Alcohol is banned on police property under a rule instituted by former commissioner, so when a captain found four empty Budweisers in the dormitory […]
Over the weekend, the cops responded to the traffic death of a pedestrian on West 96th Street in what you might describe as a counterintuitive fashion: by ticketing other pedestrians for jaywalking. One such unlucky bystander Kang Wong, an 84-year-0ld Chinese man who doesn’t speak English. When Wong tried to walk away from cops — […]
