Email Author Graham Rayman

Awards

• 2011 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "The NYPD Tapes"

• 2009 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award

  Teen Murders at Rikers Island series

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2010 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Bed-Stuy Councilwoman Calls for Investigation and Public Protest in the Wake of the Voice's 'NYPD Tapes' Series

  published May 24, 2010

  City Councilwoman Darlene Mealy is calling for an investigation into orders given by 81st Precinct supervisors that may have led to civil rights violations, and said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly need... More >>

• NYPD Issues Policy on Stop-and-Frisks; Folks Now Get a Card, Too

  published May 24, 2010

  In the wake of The Village Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, the police department has started issuing written cards on a citywide basis to New Yorkers explaining the purpose and legal justification for a ... More >>

• Audit Those NYPD Crime Stats, Former State Comptroller Says

  published May 21, 2010

  Former New York State Comptroller Carl McCall says an outside audit of the NYPD crime statistics is something that his successor in that office and the city comptroller should consider. "I think that... More >>

• City Council Members Shocked by "The NYPD Tapes"

  published May 19, 2010

  Two city council members told the Voice this week that orders given by precinct supervisors in Bedford-Stuyvesant's 81st Precinct appeared to encourage officers to violate the civil rights of local re... More >>

• NYCLU Files Lawsuit Over NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Database

  published May 19, 2010

  The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the NYPD from maintaining a database filled with hundreds of thousands of names of people stopped and frisked by the police, th... More >>

• Tapes Show That Often, NYPD Treated Training as a Joke

  published May 19, 2010

  Supervisors in the 81st Precinct often ignored required training during roll calls, but still required officers to sign documents which stated they had received the training. That's another of the rev... More >>

• Reason Magazine Stops and Frisks the NYPD

  published May 19, 2010

  Radley Balko, at Reason magazine, offers his take on the "NYPD Tapes" series. Notably, he says he too came to the conclusion from his reporting that there was a quota for stop and frisks, and that cri... More >>

• Police Union Official's 2005 Warning on Stop and Frisks

  published May 17, 2010

  The Voice's NYPD Tapes series isn't the first time that someone has raised the notion that the explosion in the number of stop-and-frisks is related to the demand for numbers from police headquarters.... More >>

• NYPD Officer Captured Talking about Cases Being Routinely Downgraded

  published May 17, 2010

  On March 27, 2009, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft taped a conversation with a fellow police officer in the 81st Precinct. On the recording, the officer can be heard talking about responding to a cal... More >>

• The NYPD Tapes Series: The Cliffs Notes Version

  published May 13, 2010

  By Graham Rayman In the first and second articles so far in our NYPD Tapes series, the Voice has documented and chronicled a range of highly questionable NYPD practices. Here we offer a Cliffs Note... More >>

• Watch Out For Those "Furtive Movements"

  published May 12, 2010

  Hot on the heels of the second part of our series on the 81st Precinct, the New York Times has posted its own take on the explosion in the number of stop and frisks, which climbed to 575,000 last year... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  More Questions Raised About NYPD Handling of Sexual Assaults

  published May 11, 2010

  In the wake of the "NYPD Tapes" article, yesterday the Voice wrote about the case of Debbie Nathan, who was the victim of an attempted rape that was initially classified as a misdemeanor. In the Voice... More >>

• The NYPD Tapes, Part 2

  published May 11, 2010

  In the summer of 2008, NYPD officers in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct embarked on an aggressive campaign to reduce crime by arresting citizens for... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  NYPD Forced to Apologize Publicly to Rape Victim for Downgrading Her Attack

  published May 10, 2010

  Last week, the Voice revealed that a cop had audiotaped his superior officers during roll calls at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn for more than a year. Those tapes show vividly that NYPD street cops a... More >>

• Quotas and Victim Intimidationr Of Course, Says Another NYPD Veteran

  published May 07, 2010

  Marquez Claxton spent 20 years as a police officer and a detective in the NYPD, most recently in Williamsburg's 90th Precinct. He retired as a detective second grade. He worked in narcotics as an unde... More >>

• Brooklyn Man Evades an Armed Robber But His Police Report Vanishes

  published May 05, 2010

  Last Halloween, Greenpoint resident Berry Hatfield was nearing his apartment building when a young man approached him and drew a silver handgun, obviously intending to rob him. Hatfield took off, got ... More >>

• Council Public Safety Chair Weighs In on the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" Exclusive

  published May 05, 2010

  We heard today from City Councilman Peter Vallone in reaction to our NYPD Tapes article. Vallone had strong views on the two central themes of the story. Vallone is the chairman of the Council's Publi... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct

  published May 4, 2010

  Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his... More >>

• Cops Want Help Identifying Slain Queens Woman

  published Apr 16, 2010

  View Larger Map Date: Near Francis Lewis Blvd. and 228th St., Queens. Location: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 1:14 a.m. The police are asking for the public's help in identifying a woman who was strang... More >>

• Probation Officer Shot and Wounded in Brooklyn

  published Apr 15, 2010

  A city probation officer was shot and seriously wounded this evening in the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources say. The officer is not believed likely to die. Not much more on it right... More >>

• Bobby Gonzalez, Hotheaded B-Ball Coach Fired for Misbehaving, Sues Seton Hall

  published Apr 10, 2010

  OK, kids, the following story is so appalling that we had to drop our plans to sit in a saloon all day and watch cricket and rush to the office to post it. Basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez, fired by S... More >>

• ATM-Killing Cadillac And Crew Believed Responsible For Nine Thefts

  published Apr 08, 2010

  Remember those Cadillac-driving bandits smashing open street ATM machines in lower Manhattanr Well, thanks to the NYPD press office, we now have the total number of thefts. In all, since Jan. 23, our... More >>

• Butler's Hayward Missed Last Night, But, Oh, What Might Have Been!

  published Apr 06, 2010

  Butler's Gordon Hayward narrowly missed a last-second shot against Duke last night, but he's made big shots before. See the videos after the jump, and imagine a mid-major team actually beating basketb... More >>

• Black Cadillac Hates ATM Machines, Smashes Into Them; Drivers Steal the Loot

  published Apr 05, 2010

  Someone's driving around lower Manhattan in a big old Cadillac and smashing into ATMs, cracking them open and stealing whatever cash is inside, law enforcement sources say. Seriously.Talk about a nov... More >>

• Roland Alonzo-Castro, 18, Chased Out of Prospect Park, Stabbed to Death

  published Apr 05, 2010

  View Larger Map DATE: Friday April 2, 2010, 5:28 p.m. LOCATION: Parade Place & Crooke Avenue, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Not often that we get a homicide so close to Prospect Park, but the police say R... More >>