Tag: Ray Kelly
The recent legal blows to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactics may have department brass fearful for the policy’s future, as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gave a fire-and-brimstone sermon on the dangers of ending the practice at a press conference yesterday. “The things that we’re doing here are working and I would hate to see them […]
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 […]
