Tag: NYPD
After nine weeks of testimony from about a dozen men who believe they’ve been wrongly stopped and frisked by the NYPD, the federal civil rights trial of the police department practice will come to a close. After each side gives a summation of its case today, judge Shira Scheindlin will review the trial record, then […]
Come across a poster like the two above on your commute recently? Laid out in classic MTA style, but adorned with Orwellian imagery and an appropriately ambiguous hashtag, they warn of two possible hazards to your health: an upcoming “airborne non-toxic test” in which the NYPD will disperse “harmless, colorless gas” around the five boroughs, […]
The NYPD has made some outrageous claims throughout the federal stop-and-frisk trial, but perhaps none more ridiculous than this: that any claims of racial profiling involving the practice are completely fabricated. Never mind the audio evidence, never mind the stats, never mind the personal testimony–it’s all fiction, according to department leadership. Department chief Joseph J. […]
Great news! NYC has seen a decrease in violent crime during the first quarter of the year, with shootings and murders dropping by 24% and 40%, respectively. Incidentally, the number of Stop-and-Frisks carried out by the NYPD has also gone down significantly during this time period. “From January 1 through March 31 of this year, […]
When Mayor Bloomberg gave his seething defense of stop-and-frisk this week, one thing he touched on was the murder of Alphonza Bryant, a 17-year-old who was gunned down in the Bronx last month. Opponents of the stop-and-frisk would allow more deaths like Bryant’s, Bloomberg’s logic went, because the controversial NYPD practice curtails gun violence. Jenaii […]
Mayor Bloomberg has just had it up to here with you bullies who are constantly attacking the NYPD over stop-and-frisk. Yesterday, the mayor gave a big, blustery speech at police headquarters to let the media, mayoral candidates, and plaintiffs in lawsuits against the department past and present that this aggression would not stand. He also […]
Quotas have been near the center of the debate about stop-and-frisk since the federal trial of the controversial NYPD practice began. If commanding officers are enforcing numerical goals for arrests, tickets, and stops (and they are), goes the plaintiffs’ line of argument, then that would incentivize officers on the street to stop a person even […]
Patricia Ratz and Pat Guglielmo were walking their three pit bulls in Staten Island’s Schmul Park when two of the dogs got into a scuffle, biting Ratz as she tried to settle them. According to Ratz, Baby Girl–the third, non-fighting dog–started to run off just as a police officer opened fire, unloading 10 shots on the animals […]
What would a chemical attack on NYC look like? How would poisonous gases spread, through the lines of the subway and above ground? These are some of the questions the NYPD and a team of researchers hope to answer this July, when they’ll disperse colorless, odorless, and apparently harmless gases called perflourocarbons around the city […]
In a press conference Monday, Mayor Bloomberg said that in the wake of the Boston bombings, our interpretation of the Constitution should change in order to allow for increased surveillance and security. “The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” he said. “But we live in a complex world where you’re going […]
