By Rob Frehse, Kristina Sgueglia and Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) – New York City will get its first female police commissioner in the new year after Mayor-elect Eric Adams picked Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell to take over the nation’s largest police department. “Keechant Sewell is a proven crime fighter with the experience […]
The altercation in New York City highlights a deeper problem — and mask mandates are a canary in the coal mine.
By Matthew Guariglia, historian of race, policing and state power On Tuesday, a man named Andrew Gilbert approached two New York police officers in a Manhattan subway station and asked why they weren’t wearing masks, in accordance with police department and city public transit policy. As bystanders filmed, the unmasked officers forced Gilbert off the […]
By Eileen Grinch, THE CITY While the city Department of Investigation readies a much-anticipated watchdog report on the NYPD’s database of alleged gang members, a new City Council bill aims to abolish the list. “It will be a very straightforward bill that would make it so that the gang database will no longer exist,” said […]
By Tina Moore and Craig McCarthy, NY Post Unvaccinated members of the NYPD will soon have to provide a negative COVID-19 test or be sent home without pay, The Post has learned. The new guidelines, which fall in line with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s executive order on coronavirus protocols for city workers in response to […]
NYPD responds to a student stabbing at the Corona Civic Leadership Academy high school. Sergeant in the School Safety Division with responding officer. – Elmhurst, NY / United States – November 8 2018 (Shutterstock) By Jen Chung, Gothamist The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has charged an NYPD sergeant with assault and attempted assault during two […]
On Tuesday, the 2nd Circuit rejected unions’ appeal to keep NYPD discipline records secret. ProPublica published thousands of those files last year. “The cat is not only out of the bag, it’s running around the streets,” one judge noted then.
By Eric Umansky, ProPublica A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling allowing New York officials to release police discipline records that had been kept secret for decades. In the wake of protests over the killing of George Floyd last spring, New York state repealed its controversial 50-a law that had shielded […]
“When are people going to be held accountable?” asked NBA guard Thabo Sefolosha. A ProPublica review found New York has paid more than $1 billion in recent years to settle suits against officers, who are rarely punished.
NYPD vehicles parked up in a line in New York City. – New York City, USA – Circa October 2018 (Shutterstock) By Mike Hayes, ProPublica Five years ago, NBA guard Thabo Sefolosha was standing outside a nightclub when he was tackled by five New York Police Department officers, one of whom broke his leg with […]
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white.
NYPD counter terrorism police officer provides security in New York. – New York – August 27, 2019 (Shutterstock) By Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica One summer night in 2015, a community college student was driving home through East New York in Brooklyn when two women on a street corner waved for him to stop. […]
NYPD School Safety Officer in front of school in Lower Manhattan. – New York – May 3, 2018 (Shutterstock) By Stanley S. Litow, The Conversation Since COVID-19 forced many of America’s schools to teach kids remotely, parents and elected officials have been rightly concerned about when things will get back to normal. But there are […]
By Eileen Grench, THE CITY A bill that would curb the secretive collecting of kids’ DNA by cops is set to hit the City Council Thursday. The measure aims to “prohibit any member of the NYPD from collecting a DNA sample from a minor prior to the lawful arrest of such minor without the consent […]