Tag: POLICE
After the shitstorm fiasco of #myNYPD, it may come as a surprise that not all police activity on social media results in disaster. This week, NPR’s All Tech Considered blog is lauding all the ways that police departments around the world are using social networks to solve crimes, specifically Pinterest: “It’s a way for us to reach […]
Cecily McMillan who allegedly elbowed a cop after he grabbed her breast during Occupy demonstrations on March 17, 2012, was found guilty of assaulting a police officer yesterday afternoon. She was denied bail, and will be held at Rikers Island until her sentencing May 19. Assaulting a police officer carries a maximum sentence of seven years. […]
Michael Setiawan, a former member of New York’s finest, was arrested Sunday and charged with spray painting anti-Semitic messages all over Borough Park, Brooklyn — a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Seitawan left the NYPD in 2007 and has been arrested six times since then, through previous charges against him have been sealed. The New York […]
Have pity on Rick Voight, a 41-year-old man who was recently driving along Interstate 90 in Montana. Just as he reached mile marker 420 — perhaps chuckling quietly to himself for a moment at the coincidence — the Montana Highway Patrol pulled him over. When they searched his car, they found 115 pounds of weed. […]
As part of its ongoing quest to scrub NYC clean of fun things, the NYPD has arrested 96 subway dancers this year so far. Forty-six were arrested for reckless endangerment, and 50 got disorderly conduct charges. Last year, cops arrested two dancers. This, then, is the work of new commissioner Bill Bratton, pomiser of building […]
Good news: a bill that would prohibit prosecutors from using condoms as evidence against sex workers in New York has passed through the state Assembly and could soon get approval in the Senate. If passed, it would be the law of its kind in the U.S. Beyond simple discrimination, the practice of using condoms to […]
Josh Boss, a journalist who was violently arrested while documenting a peaceful Occupy Wall Street March in 2011, will receive a $55,000 settlement from the city. A video of the altercation surrounding Boss’s arrest — in which Thomas Purtell throws him to the ground, then puts his knee in Boss’s face — is above. Boss […]
Yesterday, the New York Police Department did a very dumb thing. Using the hashtag #myNYPD, the department asked New Yorkers to share their photos of New York’s finest on Twitter. What happened next was utterly predictable. Activists seized upon the moment to show the NYPD for the violent, megalomaniacal, often racist organization it is, tweeting scenes […]
Finally, the NYPD unit responsible for the department’s widespread spying on Muslim communities has been disbanded. The Demographics Unit sent infiltrators into student groups, surveilled mosques, and collected data on the daily comings and goings of Muslim people in the city and New Jersey. According to an NYPD chief’s testimony in 2012, it generated no […]
Good news for Kang Chun Wong, the 84-year-old man who was knocked down, bloodied, and arrested by NYPD officers after allegedly jaywalking on the Upper West Side earlier this year: all charges against him — jaywalking, resisting arrested and disorderly conduct — were dropped. Wong, who speaks very little English, maintains the light was green when he […]
