The NYCLU’s fight against the constitution challenging Stop-and-Frisk policy went mobile today. The organization wants you to police the police. The “Stop-and-Frisk Watch” app is designed for bystanders to easily shoot and upload videos of the NYPD’s interaction with civilians.
“The police are very fond of saying, ‘If you’re not doing anything wrong then Read More
In a move that has alcoholic NYU undergrads with fake I.D.s freaking the hell out, Capt. John Cappelmann of the East Village’s Ninth Precinct is beefing up his division with eight to 10 new officers. And they are out to bust you for being drunk! Read More
The N.Y.P.D.’s monitoring of Muslim students not only extended far beyond New York, the department even sent an intrepid undercover operative on a whitewater rafting trip just to gather intelligence. The Associated Press reports the N.Y.P.D. tracked and monitored Muslim students at various universities, including Yale. The intelligence efforts also extended to the Web: Read More
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Update: Utica’s police force claim that the entire video shows that the evidence was taking off the body of the suspect before it was thrown in the car by the officers. Why they would do this however, is anyone’s guess. Longer video has been added below.
Upstate New York’s finest have been allegedly caught on tape trying to plant drugs on an African-American couple that was pulled early last year. Read More
On Monday, a video emerged from the protests over the World Financial Center Plaza, where Occupy Wall Street protesters had yet another clash-in with the police. But perhaps the most interesting thing in the video wasn’t the police, or the protesters: it was New York Times‘ credentialed freelance journalist Robert Stolarik, being pushed down some stairs by an officer, moved back with a baton by another, and barred from taking pictures by a third, who kept jumping to get in his way. And this was after The New York Times, along with several other high-name publications, had sent a letter to Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly regarding their treatment of the press when it came to OWS events.
We spoke to Mr. Stolarik–one of the few reporters who was actually allowed in Zuccotti Park on November 14th, go figure–about how The New York Times reacted to this latest slight on their First Amendment rights, and NYPD’s response. Read More
It was a day that seemed to encapsulate the tough world of the latter-day NYPD.
Early Monday morning, Officer Peter J. Figoski, 47, was shot in the face after responding to a robbery in progress in Cyprus Hills, Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Then, hours later, video emerged of Read More
Last night on Reddit (so take this with a grain of salt), a user posted an image of a document “snagged by an occupy protester.” It’s a piece of paper from the NYPD’s “Disorder Control Unit,” outlining the tactics and guidelines an officer is expected to follow during a “civil disorder incident.” What you find below might surprise you… Read More
Police commissioner Ray Kelly has a secret 23-page spreadsheet containing the names of 2,300 NYPD officers who are forbidden from transferring to different precincts without his approval, reports Graham Rayman of The Village Voice. Read More
Yikes guys! You would think the NYPD would have learned something from Officer Anthony Bologna when it came to nonchalant pepper spraying. Apparently not: from this video taken on Friday night and uploaded to the interactive map project MyBlockNYC, even bikers whose rides are hit by cruisers can find themselves on the wrong end of industrial-grade Mace. Read More
