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Jamaica Hospital

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    The New York Times Weighs In On the NYPD Tapes

    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 Schoolcraft and Deputy Chief Michael Marino right before Marino ordered him taken forcibly to the Jamaica Hosp ... More >>

  • News

    March 14, 2012

    NYPD's Reporting Problem

    Reactions to our 'NYPD Tapes' confirmation came like a swift billy club to the skull

  • News

    March 7, 2012

    The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

    The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2011

    Mistake-Prone New York Hospitals Feature in State Watch List

    ​A state list of hospitals that made potentially deadly safety mistakes features New York City facilities, the Post reports. The report, which uses 2009 data, cited an incident where doctors gave a patient the wrong blood transfusion at Jamaica Hospital. It also found 18 area hospitals that mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Adil Polanco Case: NYPD Files New Charges Against Whistleblower For, Yes, Blowing Whistle

    ​Talk about killing the messenger. In its often opaque wisdom, the NYPD has decided it would be a good idea to file new department charges against a police officer who blew the whistle and reported misconduct to investigators. Let us explain. In 2010, Police Officer Adil Polanco came forward ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Mathea Jon, 19-Year-Old Queens Girl, in Critical Condition After Four-Story Fall

    ​19-year-old Mathea Jon is in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital after she slipped and fell four stories while climbing down a fire escape in Queens. Jon and her friend Daniel Santiago, 20, were coming down from the roof of a friend's building, where they had been listening to music and en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Adrian Schoolcraft To Meet With Queens Prosecutors Next Month

    ​The Queens District Attorney has scheduled a sit-down early next month with the police officer who was dragged by police to a psychiatric facility and held for six days, after reporting allegations of misconduct to NYPD investigators, the Voice has learned. The meeting could be an indicatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Graham Rayman's "NYPD Tapes" Series Wins Gold Keyboard, NY Press Club's Highest Award

    ​The 2010 Village Voice series, "The NYPD Tapes," has won the New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard award for outstanding enterprise or investigative reporting. The Gold Keyboard is the top honor the press club gives each year.   The series kicked off in May last year and was written by staff w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Adrian Schoolcraft, Police Officer, Wins Round One In Legal Battle With City, Jamaica Hospital

    ​Adrian Schoolcraft, the police officer forced into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward by police three weeks after he reported misconduct to investigators, has won round 1 in his legal battle against the city. Schoolcraft's saga was the subject a five-part Village Voice series published la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Signs Off on Penalty for Deputy Chief in Steroid Case

    ​Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly signed off on taking 30 vacation days from a high-ranking police official -- and main character in the Adrian Schoolcraft saga -- who was found guilty last fall of steroid and/or human growth hormone possession. Deputy Chief Michael Marino, was also placed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Adrian Schoolcraft: The Other NYPD Scandal In The Room

    ​As the NYPD girds itself for the looming revelations of a wide-ranging ticket fixing scandal which could envelope up to 400 police officers and union delegates, there is another scandal that has been somewhat overlooked by the local media, but is equally toxic to the department's public image ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Donald Trump Was Actually Born!

    ​Yes, as an actual human. The mogul has proven that by providing his birth certificate, dispelling suspicions that he might have just evolved out of protoplasm under a table. This all came up because Trump wants to run for President and is actively campaigning on various talk shows and comed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Anthony Callao, 18, Fatally Beaten in What NYPD Considers a Hate Crime

    NY Daily News, via MySpace​The death of Anthony Callao, an 18-year-old who was fatally beaten Saturday night, is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD, according the the Daily News. Callao, who had recently graduated from high school, was attending a party in an abandoned house in Wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Queens DA Taking a Look At How NYPD Whistleblower Wound Up in Psych Ward [Update]

    ​It looks like Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is taking renewed interest at the events surrounding how the NYPD wound up forcing Officer Adrian Schoolcraft into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward for six days back in late 2009. Last week, Leonard Levitt, who writes an internet col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Livery Cab Shooting Suspect Sought by Police

    ​The NYPD is asking for the public's help locating a man wanted for questioning with regard to the December 7 shooting of a livery driver at the corner of 122 Street and Sutter Avenue in Queens. The victim, 53-year-old Trevor Bell, was shot in the neck, arms, and legs. He is in critical condit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Ray Kelly Taps Deputy Inspector To "Reinvestigate" NYPD Tapes allegations

    ​In yet another step in the ongoing fallout from the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has tapped a deputy inspector to reinvestigate allegations by Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft about misconduct in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct. The appointment of Deputy Inspector Dan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2010

    NYPD Tapes Fallout: Ex-Precinct Commander, Four Underlings Charged With Manipulating Crime Stats

    ​The NYPD has filed charges against the former commander of the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and four other supervisors for manipulating crime statistics. The charges follow a five part series in the Village Voice, which exposed the practice based on digital recordings made ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    *New* NYPD Tapes: "We're Gonna Get Our Cojones Busted In For Patrol's Activity," Precinct Bosses Say

    ​A new set of recordings made in April and May in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct and obtained by the Voice capture the precinct's commanders and their mid-level bosses discussing how to pressure the rank-and-file to hit their quotas. In the new recordings, the precinct commander lashes out at under ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    NYPD Big Caught in the NYPD Tapes Should be Suspended, Department Judge Rules

    ​A deputy chief in the NYPD should be suspended for 30 days and get probation for breaking department rules on using human growth hormone, an administrative law judges has ruled. As the Village Voice has reported, Deputy Chief Michael Marino is already under investigation over whether he br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Ray Kelly Hears It From Brooklyn Politicians Over Stop-and-Frisks

    ​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was challenged on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy in a recent meeting with Brooklyn politicians, the Voice has learned. In a meeting described as "somewhat tense," Kelly told a group of elected officials that the department is using stop and frisks--which have ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    NYPD Tapes 5: The Corroboration

    Another police officer secretly tapes his precinct—this time in the Bronx

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    NYPD Tapes Fallout: Precinct Commander and Deputy Chief Under Investigation

    ​In the wake of the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, police are investigating the conduct of a precinct commander and a deputy chief in connection with events at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn, and the decisions that led a department whistle blower to be dragged from his home in handcuffs and place ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    New York Mag and Other Media Offer Their Takes on NYPD Whistleblower's Lawsuit

    ​The word, reported here yesterday in Runnin' Scared, that NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft was filing a $50 million lawsuit against the NYPD and Jamaica Hospital was picked up this morning by colleagues at other news organizations.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Ray Kelly's Top Spokesman Paul Browne Present When NYPD Whistleblower Hauled to Psych Ward, Lawsuit Says

    ​Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly's top aide Paul Browne, the department spokesman, was present when cops forcibly hauled NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft to the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward, a lawsuit to be filed this week alleges. If proven true, Browne's presence at Schoolcraft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Police Seek Suspect in Homicide of Long Island Man

    ​Police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect, pictured in the adjacent police sketch, wanted in the June 21 shooting of Maurice Gordon, 33, of Freeport, Long Island. Gordon was shot once in the chest at approximately 4:00 a.m. in front of 161-2 118 Avenue, Queens. He ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2010

    NYPD Tapes 4: The WhistleBlower, Adrian Schoolcraft

    He wanted his bosses to know about NYPD misconduct. So they put him in a mental ward

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    NYPD Seeking Suspect in Homicide

    ​Police are asking for the public's assistance in locating Miguel Viruet, 34, wanted in connection with the May 5 shooting of Christian O'Hara, 19, of Queens, in front of 118-07 Atlantic Avenue. O'Hara was shot once in the back during a dispute, and was transported to Jamaica Hospital, where h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2010

    Man, 25, Shot and Killed in Far Rock

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday April 2, 2010, 314 p.m. LOCATION: 51-11 Almeda Ave., Far Rockaway, Queens. A 25-year-old man was shot and killed Friday evening outside a troubled public housing project in Far Rockaways. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was declared dead. No identity released ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2010

    Two Men Shot, One Slain in South Jamaica

    View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, March 13, 2010 at approx 0430 a.m. LOCATION: Archer Ave and 143 St., South Jamaica, Queens. The police say two men were shot at the above intersection. A 22-year-old victim was shot several times in the chest. He was declared dead at Jamaica Hospital. The second vic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Two Men Shot, One Dead in Jamaica: Incident No. 1

    View Larger Map Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 3:00 p.m. Location: 109-16 164th St., Jamaica, Queens The police say two men were shot, one fatally, yesterday afternoon in Jamaica. It was one of two double shootings in the 103rd precinct yesterday. The first victim, 29, was found at the above a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Somebody Got Murdered: Andy Herrera, of Queens, Stabbed

    View Larger Map DATE: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, at approximately 11:30 p.m. LOCATION: 87-32 123rd St., Ozone Park, Queens. The police say a 28-year-old man was found stabbed in the chest at the above address. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was declared dead. The police identified the de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2009

    Bouncer shot by police in Brooklyn bar fight

    Glenn Schuck, 1010 WINS​Plain clothes officers responding to reports of a bar brawl at the Norwood Palace Sports Bar on Fulton Street shot and killed bouncer Kevin White, 43, who was firing into the crowd at the bar as they arrived, and then pointed the gun at them. Police also shot a 19-year- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Man Shot in Jamaica, Queens

    View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, 7:15 p.m. LOCATION: 92-07 173rd St., Queens. A 22-year-old man was found shot in the chest outside the above address Monday evening. He was declared dead at Jamaica Hospital in Queens. Police have yet to release the victim's identity. If you know anyt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2009

    Have you seen... a man who stabbed a cabbie in Queens

    ​Police are looking for a man in his twenties who stabbed a livery cab driver early Tuesday morning in Queens. At ~2 am, the suspect hailed a livery cab at the corner of Parsons and the Grand Central Parkway, and told the driver to go to 87-10 169 St. When they got there, he allegedly left t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Two Shot, One Dead in Queens

    View Larger Map DATE: Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, 11:42 a.m. LOCATION: 113-37 205 St., Queens. The police say two men were shot, one fatally, outside the above address. The men, who have yet to be identified were found in a car. One of the victims, 35, was taken to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Somebody Got Murdered: Murder in the Rockaways

    View Larger Map DATE: On Friday 8-21-2009 at approximately 0320 hours LOCATION: in front of 410 Beach 54 Street The police are saying that a 19-year-old man was shot and killed outside 4-10 Beach 54th St. in the Rockaways early Friday. He was shot in the side of the head. He was taken to Jamaica ... More >>

  • News

    November 28, 2006

    The Wedding That Wasn't

    View Larger Map DATE: On Friday 8-21-2009 at approximately 0320 hours LOCATION: in front of 410 Beach 54 Street The police are saying that a 19-year-old man was shot and killed outside 4-10 Beach 54th St. in the Rockaways early Friday. He was shot in the side of the head. He was taken to Jamaica ... More >>

  • News

    July 11, 2000

    Cocaine and Conspiracy

    Were the Deaths in Custody of Two Suspected Drug Users ‘Accidental’ or Police Brutality?

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