Tag: NYPD
A 26-year-old woman died after she was struck by an ambulance and then hit by a car on West 96th Street in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The NYPD responded by issuing summonses… to pedestrians. According to CBS reporter Sonia Moghe, cops were at that location earlier today giving out tickets for jaywalking. The […]
Sleeping on the job is apparently a large enough issue for the NYPD that certain lieutenants, dubbed “integrity control officers,” are in charge of keeping and monitoring a list of places in the precinct that are off-limits to cops for fear that they might catch a quick nap. Each morning, the integrity control officer patrols […]
Ten years later, some justice for the hundreds and hundreds of people who were unlawfully arrested during protests of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. In a settlement announced yesterday, the city will pay out $18 million to some 1,800 protesters, journalists, and bystanders. “No lawful protester should ever be treated like a criminal […]
Jael and Jan Sanchez, two 20-year identical twin brothers, finished a neck-and-neck race for New York City’s biggest dummy in a dual arrest over the weekend. Jael was stopped in his car Sunday morning, and attempted to hide some weed in his waistband during the stop. When cops saw the herb, they searched Sanchez and found […]
The latest tools in the New York Police Department’s youth-arresting, gang-fighting arsenal are YouTube and SoundCloud, according to a New York Times report detailing how the NYPD uses rap videos to investigate shootings. “It’s a double-edged sword,” says Patrice Nelson, who manages several local rappers, about the police surveilling music. “If you have that much passion and […]
On July 4 of last year, NYPD officers stormed a Crown Heights barbecue, spraying mace into the crowd, entering private property without a warrant or the owner’s permission, beating people, and making several arrests. Two videos, one uploaded to YouTube at the time and the other published today, show the chaos and violence as it […]
A cop afraid of a dog and its unarmed owner opened fire on them inside their own Coney Island apartment building, according to a lawsuit. Fortunately, the shots missed and neither Elizabeth Villafane nor her bullmastiff Bubba were hurt. The pair cops were in Villafane’s building to issue a warrant for her arrest for walking an […]
One month of its instatement, the NYPD’s blackout on local crime news is still in effect. In December, the department stopped allowing precincts to provide information about crime to reporters, instead funneling all requests through the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, effectively cutting off information about local crime. Brooklyn Daily and Gothamist dug into the […]
Yet another NYPD officer has come forward and admitted he was riding with the group of motorcyclists who chased down and beat a driver last month. Matthew Rodriguez, 28, serves in the internal affairs bureau–ironically, the division of the NYPD devoted to investigating wrongdoing by cops like this one. Rodriguez is the latest to come forward […]
The drama never stops coming in the case of last month’s motorcycle-vs.-SUV chaos. Wojciech Braszczok, an undercover detective who rode with the motorcycle gang, had his charges upgraded from criminal mischief and riot to assault and gang assault (the riot charge was dropped) for his involvement in the attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien. In a […]
