A bit of good news as the passing of 2011 nears: homicides were down five percent for the year, the overall crime rate was flat, and fires killed just 64 people, the second lowest number of fire fatal...
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Mayor Bloomberg's normally reserved companion, Diana Taylor, lashed out at locked out Sotheby's art handlers, who interrupted a planning commission meeting to question her about the stalled negotiatio...
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In the annals of political rhetoric, there are lies, damn lies and exaggeration. Well, according to Politicker NY, Mayor Bloomberg dropped himself into the third category during a speech at MIT last n...
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is under criticism from transportation advocates for failing to hold accountable reckless drivers who kill people.
"They [police] are simply not taking that job serious...
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George Stephanopoulus' toe-curling interview with Ginger White, the alleged mistress of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, is the sound of a candidacy dying. White says Cain's not fit to b...
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Criminologists Eli Silverman, of John Jay College, and John Eterno, of Molloy College, offer one of their periodic opinion pieces about the NYPD. This one is about the intersection between the recent ...
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Ever wonder how the super rich avoid paying all those taxesr Well, the New York Times has an interesting takeout here on all the shenanigans folks like Ron Lauder, of Estee Lauder, do to shelter their...
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The former president of Cooper Union is (for an academic) blasting the current administration's plan to start charging tuition to incoming students--the latest salvo in an increasing controversy over ...
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In the annals of the NYPD, there are good arrests, bad arrests, and downright bizarre arrests. The case of Luis Veras, a recent Lehman College... More >>
The city jail system is sharply expanding its so-called Punitive Segregation Unit, or solitary confinement cells, reports Solitary Watch, a blog which reports on the nations penal system. By the end o...
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Last year, police officers fired their guns the least number of times and shot and killed the smallest number of people since 1970, NYPD officials said. Cops shot and killed eight people last year, co...
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Wondering why that type A go-getter in accounting seems sleepy and uninterested in workr
Well, apparently, there's a shortage of Adderall, the over-prescribed ADHD drug for kids that's also used by c...
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The Bloomberg administration is being targeted by the media right now for the NYPD's banning and arresting of reporters during last week's expulsion of the Occupy Wall Street tent city.
In a letter ...
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Today, amid the roiling Occupy Wall Street protests, we bumped into Andre Gregory, who wrote and acted in the iconic 1981 film, "My Dinner With Andre."
Standing on the sidewalk outside Trinity Church...
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Photographer C.S. Muncy, a regular contributor to the Voice, offers this account of his experiences during the NYPD pre-dawn raid Tuesday to clear Zuccotti Park. Muncy says, notably, that he was able ...
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly keeps a secret list of police officers who cannot be transferred without his specific approval. The list, which... More >>
City Comptroller John Liu, who has won kudos for taking on the Bloomberg administration over cost overruns on consultant contracts, is being investigated by the Feds for campaign finance irregularitie...
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Update: Only a few hours after Graham Rayman posted this story of a leaked NYPD plan to mobilize against OWS protesters, a massive raid of Zuccotti Park began. Our reporter Rosie Gray was one of the f...
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Ever wonder why Congress seems so willing to help bail out the financial industryr Well, a 60 Minutes report on Sunday says that lawmakers purchased stock in companies while involved in debates on Cap...
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The union representing correction officers today blasted Correction Commissioner Dora Schriro's management of the city's jail system.
In an unusual advertisement published in the New York Daily News,...
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The board at Cooper Union, a 153-year-old college located right across the street from the Voice, is under fire for floating a plan to start charging tuition for the first time since 1902. The board c...
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Over the past few weeks, one scandal after another has hit the police department, making things increasingly uncomfortable for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his top advisors, and the accretion of ...
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In yet more fallout from the ongoing housing crisis, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is suing one of the country's largest mortgage brokers for defrauding the public and the federal government to the tune...
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Tonight marks the two-year anniversary of the night that NYPD brass dragged Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft from his apartment and forced him into the Jamaica Hospital Psychiatric Ward.--an episode ...
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