Tag: NYPD
In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a proposal put forth to Staten Island’s Community Education Council would have the city hire hundreds of retired police officers to work as armed security guards in New York City schools, rotating around the city’s 1,1750 schools. It’s unclear whether the guards would be […]
The NYPD recently put an end to a technically legal but ethically dubious practice put into place by 76th Precinct Commander Jeffery Schiff: using Twitter to publicly disseminate pictures and names of released convicts spotted in Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill. Though the information is public, to spread it in such an […]
Because our audience surely includes a law-breaker or two, we thought we’d bring you this update on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: according to the New York Times, the storm pummeled a Red Hook warehouse that was home to “hundreds of seized cars, thousands of guns and 9,846 barrels of evidence containing sensitive DNA material.” And apparently, […]
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