Tag: POLICE
Yesterday, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced a report that found NYPD officers make “egregious” errors in classifying crimes, sometimes intentionally, in order to report lower crime statistics. Kelly ordered the audit two years ago, and it was carried committee of prominent attorneys. “Performance is — at least in part — measured by the ability to […]
Last Saturday afternoon photographer, Shawn Randall Thomas was arrested for photographing a police station in Bushwick. Thomas was allegedly taking photos of the station for over an hour prior to his encounter with the frustrated police officer seen in the video below. Thomas says that he was unlawfully arrested and has filed a formal complaint against the […]
New data from the ACLU shows a staggering racial disparity in cannabis arrests nationwide: In 2010, black Americans were four times more likely to be arrested on charges related to the plant than whites, even though rates at which each group smoked weed were similar. “We found that in virtually every county in the country, […]
Drug enforcement authorities in Washington are encountering an unusual but awesome problem after the state voted to legalize recreational use of cannabis last year: re-training drug dogs to “unsmell” weed. It’s not a requirement in the state, but departments in Seattle, Bremerton, and Bellevue have opted to either have veteran dogs go through unsmelling training or […]
Details about the video above are scant, but everything you need to know is in there: there’s a cop, with his hands around a man’s neck, inside the man’s own home, threatening to “beat the living shit out of [him] and drag [his] fucking ass to jail—got it?” According to Michael Schuchman, the 22-year-old being manhandled […]
Last night in East Flatbush, about 200 people attended a candlelight vigil for Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old shot and killed by police Saturday after allegedly pointing a loaded gun at two officers. When half that group marched to the 67th Precinct Stationhouse to protest, the proceedings once again became chaotic and violent, with 45 people […]
This should be common knowledge by now, but the police can’t tell you to stop taking photos of them in public. Your right to do so is protected by not one, not two, but three amendments. The U.S. Department of Justice has just supported a photojournalist Mannie Garcia’s lawsuit against the Montgomery County police after […]
When we last left Lil Poopy, he was being rapper who starred in music videos while being nine years old. Now, it seems that Lil Poopy’s dealing with his first run-in with the cops, but it’s not even his fault. Police are investigating the welfare of Lil Poopy, after someone in charge of child welfare […]
2 Chainz did not have a good Valentine’s Day. He was arrested in Maryland while on his way to perform at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, but that’s not even the worst part. After arresting Mr. Chainz, 2 copz asked to take a picture with the rapper. The artist formerly known as Tity Boi […]
In an effort to bring more citizen oversight to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, the New York Civil Liberties Union has brought its innovative Stop and Frisk Watch mobile app to the iPhone. Using the app, New Yorkers can take video recordings of any stop they witness (not when they’re being stopped themselves–relax, NYP), then […]
