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

More

2012 Stories by Graham Rayman

• Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Agrees To Let CCRB Prosecute All Cops Subject of a Substantiated Civilian Complaint

  published Mar 28, 2012

  From the department of fairly big deals, the Police Department has finally agreed to allow the Civilian Complaint Review Board to prosecute all police officers against whom a complaint has been substa... More >>

• NYPD Clean Halls Program Faces Legal Challenge

  published Mar 28, 2012

  Later this morning, civil liberties advocates will announce a new challenge to the controversial NYPD program of patrolling the hallways of thousands of privately-owned buildings. Private owners enr... More >>

• Robert Borrelli, NYPD Sergeant, Adds Voice to Other Cops Citing Crime Victims Being Ignored

  published Mar 27, 2012

  A Queens police sergeant, Robert Borrelli, has added his voice to other cops who say crime is being systematically downgraded throughout the NYPD. Borrelli says that he tried to report this downgradin... More >>

• Iraq and Afghanistan War Vets Facer Higher Unemployment: Survey

  published Mar 27, 2012

  Members of the armed services who have come home face substantially higher unemployment rates than the government claims, an Iraq and Afghanistan advocacy group claims. And 37 percent of veterans surv... More >>

• Tibetan Hunger Strikers Enter Day 23 Of Fast Outside United Nations

  published Mar 16, 2012

  Today brings Day 23 of the fast outside the United Nations by three Tibetan monks protesting Chinese occupation of their homeland. Protesters will gather at Times Square this morning at 8, the Chines... More >>

• Innocence Project: Cuomo's DNA Bill Doesn't Include Other Measures to Stop Wrongful Convictions

  published Mar 16, 2012

  The state legislature and Gov. Cuomo are under fire for on the one hand, backing legislation that requires everyone arrested in the state to provide a DNA sample, while at the same time, not taking ot... More >>

• CityTime Fiasco: SAIC Has To Pay $500 Million, Faces Shareholders Lawsuit

  published Mar 15, 2012

  The company that botched the CityTime payroll project will pay the government $500 million to settle its liability for the $800 million debacle, federal prosecutors say. The city gets $466 million of ... More >>

• The New York Times Weighs In On the NYPD Tapes

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times has done a second column on the Adrian Schoolcraft affair. His column published yesterday details the exchange between Schoolcraf... More >>

• NYPD's Reporting Problem

  published March 14, 2012

  Reacting to the Voice's article last... More >>

• Ahmed Ferhani, Terror Suspect or NYPD Dupe, Gets Own Protest

  published Mar 13, 2012

  The controversy over the NYPD's surveillance of muslim groups gets the courthouse steps protest treatment in Manhattan this morning, as a man arrested for an alleged terror plot has his next hearing. ... More >>

• Charles McDowell, Convicted Livery Cabbie Killer, Gets Life

  published Mar 12, 2012

  Charles McDowell, who shot and killed livery cab driver Amadou Ndiaye in August, 2009, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson tells us. Ndiaye, a native ... More >>

• United Nations Hunger Strike By Tibetan Monks Enters 17th Day

  published Mar 09, 2012

  Today marks the start of the 17th day of a hunger strike outside the United Nations building in midtown for three Tibetan monks who are protesting China's repression of Tibet, and demanding that the U... More >>

• NYPD, Mayor's Office Bizarrely Mum On NYPD Tapes Revelations

  published Mar 08, 2012

  Well, so far, two days after the Voice disclosed the results of a secret NYPD investigation which vindicated Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft's allegations about the downgrading of crimes, the NYPD h... More >>

• NYPD Crime Stats Manipulation Widespread, Must Be Investigated, Criminologists Say

  published Mar 07, 2012

  Two criminologists offer their take on this week's Voice cover story about the secret NYPD investigation which confirmed allegations by Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft of downgrading of crime report... More >>

• 

  COVER STORY

  The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

  published March 7, 2012

  In 2010, The Village Voice produced a five-part series, the " More >>

• City Council Bills Tackle Stop and Frisk; Skeptics Skeptical They Will Pass

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Members of the City Council will introduce three bills today, sponsored by Councilman Jumaane Williams, that they apparently hope will ease the broiling stop and frisk controversy, but some council ob... More >>

• John Liu "Stunned" At Arrest of His Campaign Treasurer on Fraud Charges

  published Feb 28, 2012

  The campaign treasurer for City Comptroller John Liu was arrested and charged today with fraud for her role in a scheme that used fake donors to pump money into his relection campaign, federal prosecu... More >>

• NYPD Numbers Show Sharp Increases in Crime So Far This Year

  published Feb 21, 2012

  That jump in the citywide crime rate has continued through the sixth week of the year, up over 5 percent so far, with thefts and robbery accounting for the increase. Robberies, burglaries and grand la... More >>

• Eric Stein, ex-Vegas Con-Man, Pleads to Pet Scam Charges

  published Feb 16, 2012

  America, being the land of opportunity and all that, certainly generates more than its share of brilliant scammers, but Eric Stein may be a candidate for the con-man hall of fame, pets division--not s... More >>

• NYPD Hit With Flurry of Bad Raid Lawsuits

  published Feb 15, 2012

  Last month, the NYPD was hit with at least six bad raid lawsuits, including faulty incursions into a 76-year-old woman's apartment, and a residence occupied by a married couple and two five-year-old k... More >>

• Cop Shooter's Gun Could Have Been Bought For As Little As $30

  published Feb 02, 2012

  The revolver used in the shooting of Police Officer Kevin Brennan has a controversial history, and a reputation as a poorly made street gun that was likely passed from hand to hand over a period of ma... More >>

• Ray Kelly, Spokesman Browne On Hot Seat In Anti-Islam Movie Fallout

  published Jan 25, 2012

  In more fallout from "film gate"--the NYPD's decision to show a controversial anti-Islam film to cops at an anti-terror training center--Mayor Bloomberg says it showed "terrible judgment," and Police ... More >>

• Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Has to Remind Cops to Take Criminal Complaints

  published Jan 24, 2012

  More than a year after revelations in this newspaper and others media outlets about police under-reporting of crime complaints, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has taken the unusual step of actually rem... More >>

• Anti-Muslim Film Shown to 1,500 Police Officers, Far More Than NYPD Claimed

  published Jan 24, 2012

  In another example of the chickens coming home to roost, the NYPD has had to reveal that almost 1,500 police officers were shown a controversial film which the Voice described a year ago--in first bre... More >>

• Al Vann, Brooklyn Councilman, Says NYPD Breaking the Law By Not Releasing Audits of Crime Numbers

  published Jan 12, 2012

  City Councilman Al Vann, who has represented Bedford-Stuyvesant in some elected capacity since 1974, weighed in on the NYPD's refusal to release 11 years of 81st Precinct crime statistics, calling it ... More >>