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Ray Kelly, Mike Bloomberg Facing Stiff Test In Upcoming Stop and Frisk Trial, Starting Monday

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has served the city for 11 years. Mayor Bloomberg is in the final year of his third term. Next week, the legacies of both men will be tested in a major trial starting Monday over the city's stop and frisk campaign. The case is a class action lawsuit filed in 2008 calle ... More >>

Lawyers for Whistleblower Cop Slap Queens District Attorney Richard Brown With A Subpoena

Lawyers for whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft today served Queens District Attorney Richard Brown with a subpoena demanding that he give a videotaped deposition and turn over all documents related to Brown's finding that there was no criminal conduct when Schoolcraft was forcibly removed from his ... More >>

NYPD Tapes Update: Queens DA Richard Brown's Report on Whistleblower Cop Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown's announcement last week that neither the police nor Jamaica Hospital committed any crimes when NYPD Tapes whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft was dragged from his apartment by police and involuntarily held in a psych ward raises a whole lot more questions than it ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Claims Another Life; Has Now Killed 41 People in New York City

When police entered his apartment building on Tuesday, October 29 in Rockaway Park, Queens, blocks away from the Atlantic Ocean, they found William McKeon, 78, at the bottom of a wet set of stairs. The power had long since died.It was dark, pitch-black, and saltwater and sand was ... More >>

Another Knife-Wielding Foe Taken Down by NYPD in Queens

As if the Times Square encounter with that nutjob and his knife in broad daylight wasn't already imprinted in our short-term memory.In Queens, police received a tip at around 5pm that a 27-year-old man was holding a knife to his own neck. Once they arrived on the scene, the tip came true as the NYPD ... More >>

Accident in Queens Leaves 5 Dead Early This Morning

At around 3am this morning, a Mercedes Benz SUV carrying eight people was traveling fast down Atlantic Avenue near the Van Wyck Expressway. The car suddenly struck a beam for the AirTrain to JFK International Airport and spun out of control, flipping the SUV on its side. Immediately after, the vehic ... More >>

Family Sues To Learn Why Shereese Francis Was Suffocated In Her Home By Police

On March 15, Shereese Francis had a fight with her mother and became increasingly emotionally distraught. Francis, 30, lived at home in Queens, wasn't taking the medication prescribed for her schizophrenia. Her sister called 311, hoping to get Shereese to a hospital. Before an ambulance arrived, fo ... More >>

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 >>

NYPD's Reporting Problem

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

*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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

NYPD Tapes 5: The Corroboration

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

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

NYPD Tapes 4: The WhistleBlower, Adrian Schoolcraft

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Wedding That Wasn't

Cocaine and Conspiracy

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