Reports by the city’s Commission to Combat Police Corruption offer a rare peek into a secretive disciplinary system that critics say for years has protected bad cops.
Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Yoav Gonen, Peter Senzamici, and Carson Kessler, THE CITY A third-year New York City cop who threw his live-in girlfriend on the couch and punched her in the face was suspended for 30 days and required to undergo counseling. Another NYPD officer, who lied about intentionally shutting an emergency subway […]
NYPD officers drove vehicles into protesters in Brooklyn Saturday night. Devin Khan is in white shirt near top of SUV on left. Screengrab/@pgarapon/Instagram By Virginia Breen, THE CITY Two Brooklyn friends hit by an NYPD SUV that surged into a crowd of protesters Saturday say cops later pepper-sprayed them and struck them with batons — […]
President of PBA Patrick Lynch speaks during NYC Police Benevolent Association thanks staff at LIJMC – New Hyde Park, NY – April 23, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY With state lawmakers set to consider nixing a law that bars the public release of police misconduct records, the city’s most powerful police union […]
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams distributes PPE to Bed-Stuy EMS volunteers. – Brooklyn, New York/USA April 25, 2020 (Shutterstock) Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who’s thinking about running for mayor next year, spent 22 years in the NYPD before going into politics, retiring as a captain in 2006. During that time, he founded an […]
Hundreds took to the streets of Manhattan protesting against police brutality after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. – New York City, New York/USA May 30, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Josefa Velasquez, Greg B. Smith and Yoav Gonen, THE CITY State lawmakers in New York are inching closer to repealing a […]
Image Credit: Facebook: Daquan Owens There is an outcry over a video of an NYPD officer taking down a bystander who was watching officers make an arrest for an apparent social distancing violation this weekend. The incident was reported Saturday evening around 5:30 on 9th Street and Avenue D in the East Village. As a […]
BY GEORGE JOSEPH & ALI WINSTON, Gothamist On a late March night in 2016, Jeremy Turnbull stood outside a friend’s apartment building in the Bronx’s Morris Heights neighborhood. Turnbull, then 25 years old, was frustrated. He had taken a cab to pick up his girlfriend and persuaded the driver to wait until she came outside. As Turnbull […]
In 109 of the last 118 years, the NYPD has been run by white men — including James O’Neill, the current commissioner. Since 1901, when the NYPD was first run by a single commissioner, only two of the 42 commissioners appointed by mayors have been non-white.
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY Nearly 70% of New York City’s residents are Hispanic, black, Asian or mixed race — a non-white majority that’s steadily solidified since the 1980s. But over at One Police Plaza, the top ranks of the New York City Police Department appear to be frozen in time. Almost 80% of […]
Transgender people are often profiled as sex workers and targeted with bogus arrests
(By NYCLU) On her way home from the bus stop on a spring night in the Bronx last year, Linda Dominguez cut across a park because it was the most direct route to her apartment. Even though others leaving the bus were also crossing the park, three officers from the New York City Police Department […]
By Travis Morales.
Why are police who brutalize and murder rarely if ever charged, much less convicted and sent to prison?
BROOKLYN, NY (Workers World Today) — Three days before Christmas, 1994. The Baez family is altogether. Around 1 a.m., four of the Baez brothers go outside, and start a game of touch football. Everybody’s happy, playing around…then the ball goes off target, thud…it hits the roof of a cop car parked on the street. “Sorry […]
