Tag: NYPD
New York City is working to curb unnecessary school suspensions with measures that aim to help students rather than just send them home or call 911, practices popular during the early tenure of the Bloomberg days. But considering that one part of the plan involves a partnership with the NYPD, it is unclear how much […]
The New York Daily News reports on “an internal NYPD directive” from February 6 that showed cops how they can use Siri to return lost iPhones to their original owners though the phone is locked. Apparently, the directive even outlined the steps (press the home button) and included what questions to ask. Now that every […]
Twelve. That’s how many days New York City went without a homicide. Sadly, a man was shot in Queens on Friday “just before noon,” reports the New York Times. Earlier that day, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton appeared on on “CBS This Morning” and when he was asked about the historically low numbers by host Charlie […]
In what sounds like a plot of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the NYPD is reportedly cracking down on cops who are using personal radios to “anonymously mock” their superiors, reports the New York Post. The issue has become so pervasive that officers received an internal memo about it: An internal memo issued late last year reminded the […]
For an organization that has been so adamant on increasing its public surveillance, it is surprising and troubling that several NYPD precincts don’t have working security cameras. A new report by DNAinfo claims that “cameras outside police precinct stationhouses” are “not working in a number of cases, according to an NYPD source.” The point isn’t […]
A cellphone video of an all-out brawl instigated by officers at a festival in Sunset Park led to the prosecution dropping charges against a man accused by police to have assaulted them and resisted arrest. The disturbing video from September shows Officer Vincent Ciardiello hitting 22-year-old Jonathan Daza while the latter was restrained face-down on […]
As of late Thursday night, the NYPD had not investigated a murder since February 1, leaving NYC without any reported murders for 11 days. That’s a “modern record,” according to the New York Daily News: The city is in the midst of a murder-free stretch that snapped the “modern-day” record at midnight Thursday. NYPD officials […]
Hordes of people who gave zero fucks about the plummeting temperature packed Manhattan’s Flatiron Plaza on Thursday night to see rapper and artiste Kanye West perform in his fancy new sneakers. The police had it barricaded like a parade route. To get in, concertgoers had to show a ticket or a special lanyard. I had […]
Officer Peter Liang, the rookie cop who was indicted for six charges in the fatal shooting of East New York man Akai Gurley, apparently debated not reporting the incident for four minutes. It had previously been reported that the officer — who was performing a vertical patrol of the Pink Houses when he fired his […]
A Brooklyn grand jury has indicted rookie cop Peter Liang in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, reports NY1. According to the New York Post, the charges include manslaughter in the second degree. Liang and another officer were patrolling East New York’s Pink Houses on November 20 and entered the building. As Liang was opening […]
