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Blogs
September 30, 2013
NYPD Hunts Serial Groper in the Bronx
Cops are hunting a sexual deviant who has been prowling the Tremont section of the Bronx. He's wanted for groping two young women last week. The first took place on Thursday, September 26, just before 7 a.m., at the intersection of East 188th Street and Lorillard Place. The man approached a 20-year- ... More >>
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September 27, 2013
Man Who Attacked Hijab-Wearing Woman In Times Square Released With Just A Ticket
Rachel Gunnoe, a stay-at-home mom from New Jersey, was in a Times Square on Saturday, taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Egypt, when she was accosted by a man who grabbed her protest sign, threw it in her face, and called her a "fucking terrorist." Her assailant, identifi ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2013
NYPD Releases Video of Suspects in Attack on Sikh Columbia Professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh
We told you yesterday about Columbia University professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who was attacked and beaten by a large group of young men as he walked near 110th Street and Lennox Avenue in Harlem. Singh was unable to remember much about his attackers, except that they were mostly African-American, an ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2013
NYPD Officers Suing Chopper Companies for Crash-Landing
On September 22, 2010, an NYPD helicopter crashed in Jamaica Bay. The six officers onboard had been patrolling the sky because President Obama was in town for a meeting at the United Nations. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS New York that the pilot "heard a loud bang and then lost altitude r ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2013
Times Square Man Hits Hijab-Wearing Woman With Sign, Calls Her A "Fucking Terrorist"
Ah, Times Square. That place has everything--Broadway shows, naked body painting, anti-Semitic Elmo. This weekend, it was also the site of an ugly race-based attack. An unidentified man was captured on video swearing at Times Square demonstrators, including a woman wearing a hijab, who he called ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2013
NYPD Creates Fake Facebook Profiles of Young Women to Spy on Suspected Gang Members
As the New York Times reported on Thursday, the NYPD has a new anti-gun violence strategy called Operation Crew Cut. One part of this strategy involves keeping tabs on suspected gang members' social media feeds, to try to spot any simmering tensions or vows of retaliation. That means following the y ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2013
NYPD Officer Arrested in an International Gun Running Ring
In a crime likely to be a pie in the face for the city police department, an NYPD officer has been arrested as part of an international gun-smuggling ring. Officer Rex Maralit and his brothers Wilfredo and Ariel have been charged in a conspiracy to ship high-powered rifles from the U.S. to the Phill ... More >>
Blogs
August 29, 2013
NYPD Designates Some Mosques as Terrorist Organizations and Conservative Twitterdom Gives Three Cheers
If you've ever walked around the city and seen those NYPD machines that look like cherry pickers with a viewing deck, you've just passed a NYPD surveillance unit. Someone on that block or near it is getting their insides X-rayed by some cop in a spy treehouse. Now you can expect to see more of those ... More >>
Blogs
August 1, 2013
NYPD's Last Best Hope Against the Community Safety Act: Commemorative Pens
Stop the presses! Seriously, stop them. We've reached the end. With Monday's announcement that the NYPD Union will be distributing embossed pens condemning the Community Safety Act, there's no need for public accountability or scrutiny by the press. Who knew it's the police who've been the ones pers ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2013
NYPD Tapes Update: Kelly's Crime Stats Panel Finally Releases Its Report, Things Not All Rosy For The Commish
A committee formed by police commissioner Ray Kelly to look into the accuracy of the city's crime numbers finally released its report yesterday in an abruptly called press conference at police headquarters. The committee was created in January, 2011, and the report was initially supposed to be comp ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2013
NYPD Warrant Squad Cops Wear Controversial "Hunting of Man" T-Shirts
Members of the NYPD's Queens Warrant Squad were spotted last week wearing T-shirts imprinted with a quote that some folks might find just a little bit offensive. A photo is at right. The quote reads, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and l ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2013
Bloomberg Hates Eric Holder's NYPD Federal Monitor, Calls It a "Terrible Idea"
It comes as no surprise that controversy would ride the coattails of the news yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder may suggest a federal monitor over the NYPD should stop-and-frisk be deemed unconstitutional in Floyd v. New York. Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly freaked out in a tele ... More >>
Blogs
June 5, 2013
Uh Oh, Ray Kelly, Those NYPD Legal Claims Continue to Rise Way Ahead of Other Agencies
Legal claims against the NYPD are still rising, outpacing those of all other agencies, Comptroller John Liu tells us. New police action claims--false arrest, shooting, excessive force, civil rights claims, etc.-- rose 22 percent in fiscal year 2012, nearly doubling over the past five years. However, ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2013
FDNY Rescues NYPD Rescuing Cat, Publishes Photos of the Actually Dangerous Shit They Do
We guess this is what you call bragging rights. On Monday, the fire department was called in to save an NYPD officer who got stuck in a tree while trying to rescue a cat in Queens. The firefighters laughed at the cop, and saved the cat first, but also published photos of their rescue paramedic teams ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2013
Do Big NYPD Drug Busts Just Target the Little Fish?
A troubling pattern is emerging around the NYPD's recent "big drug busts." Last month, after years of surveillance, the NYPD concluded that gangs on the Lower East Side had sold "$1.2 million worth of coke in two years." On April 12, the NYPD arrested 41 people from the neighborhood, mostly from Ba ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2013
The Use of Stop & Frisk And Crime Rates Continue To Drop
It's already been quite a strange year for stop and frisk. In the first days of the new year, the NYPD's City Halls program, which allowed officers to search anyone remotely suspicious in tenant buildings, was stamped unconstitutional in a Manhattan court. Then, a few weeks later, court proceeding ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2013
Which NYC Mayoral Candidates Think Spying on American Muslims is Unconstitutional?
On Sunday afternoon, seven mayoral hopefuls gathered for a forum co-hosted by the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) and the Islamic Center at New York University. Community organizers hailed it as an historic moment. Nearly three weeks after the Boston bombings--and in the heat of the de ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2013
Bloomberg Tells Police That Critics of Stop-and-Frisk Are "Courting Disaster"
Judging by NYPD crime metrics, 2013 is shaping up to be a pretty good year so far--there have been fewer murders than this time last year, and 2012 was itself a record low. Shootings are down, too. And yet, when it comes to public relations, 2013 has been an annus horribilis for New York police: wee ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2013
Firearm Deaths Are Down, But Don't Jump To Conclusions About Stop and Frisk
Today, GOP mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis released a radio ad touting his support for "pro-active police work" and blasting foes of the NYPD's controversial practice of stop and frisk. The ad followed on the heels of a new report out from the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene showing that f ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2013
NYPD Releases New Video That Teaches You How to Stop and Frisk
"Illegal weapons are flooding our city's streets," the eerie voice says amongst pictures of AK-47s. "Out of state gun hoarders have made it all too easy to acquire an illegal gun if the price is right. It is our job as professional police officers to legally detect and remove guns by arresting the o ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
NYU Student Busted For Selling Airsoft Rifles Out Of Dorm
Ah, college. A time spent to prepare oneself for the modern job market, learning all the tricks of the trade that will place you higher up on that steep ladder of social mobility in 2013. Nowadays, that all translates into making the newest app or website, not really running a full-scale operation o ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2013
Which NY Agencies Are the Worst at Responding to Freedom of Information Requests?
The NYPD and New York City Housing Authority are some of the worst offenders when it comes to disclosing information to the public, according to a new report put out by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. Between January and March of 2011, New York City agencies received 9,970 requests for information- ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2013
NYPD To Officers: Don't Hate On Gingers
We're still looking for the NYPD tapes that capture ginger hate on audio. In a New York Post "exclusive" yesterday, it was reported that the Boys In Blue in Manhattan have recently sent out an internal memo, informing co-workers that it is not okay to discriminate against officers with red hair. As ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2013
Shira Scheindlin, Federal Judge In Stop and Frisk Trial, Distills Debate Over Controversial Tactic
The judge in the stop and frisk trial Friday offered an interesting explanation of her view on the case, and a key element of the city's defense. It came at a point where in questioning a plaintiff's expert, a city lawyer was trying to make the point that the tactic is an effective crime strategy. ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2013
The Community Safety Act Puts Mayoral Candidates' NYPD Views on Display
We're almost close to labeling 'NYPD actions' as the hot button issue for this mayoral race. Two weeks ago, the Voice reported that the NYPD had committed its 5 millionth stop-and-frisk. Then, a few days later, hearings began downtown on Floyd v. New York, which challenges the practice all together ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2013
NYPD Finally Changes Policy on Traffic Collisions
Under pressure from City Council and a coalition of bicycle and pedestrian advocates, the NYPD has made changes to how it investigates -- and talks about -- traffic collisions. In a letter to city councilors revealed yesterday, Police Chief Ray Kelly announced a number of changes in how the departm ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2013
City Council Members Say Bloomberg and Kelly Aren't Listening, Take Legal Action Against Stop-and-Frisk
Perhaps it is Mayor Michael Bloomberg who needs a crash-course on the dangers of ear-bud volume, because the City Council's Black, Latino and Chinese Caucus says the mayor must not be hearing the massive outcry against stop, question and frisk. The 27-member caucus filed an amicus brief Monday in t ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
Another Subway Death Solution: NYPD Tracking Of Mentally Ill?
Okay, the platform doors, laser alert system and the advice for conductors to slow down were one thing. But this goes a little above and beyond that. Yesterday, news came that the NYPD, in accordance with the Health Department, has tracked down twenty-five mentally ill patients that have been deeme ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2013
VIDEO: Here's the Man Accused of Luring Children in Corona, Queens
The NYPD is asking for help to find a man suspected of attempting to lure two teenage girls last Friday, January 25, in the Queens neighborhood of Corona. The first incident happened in the morning, around 7 a.m. Police say a 13-year-old Hispanic girl was walking on Northern Boulevard near 102 Stre ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2013
Has This Guy Punched You in the Head Recently? (Updated)
Updated 1:30 p.m.: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says the suspect was caught on a Texas-bound Greyhound bus and arrested. Police tracked his cell phone to a bus station, then stopped both buses that had departed the station overnight. Commisso was found on one of them, asleep. --- While Chris Brow ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2013
Somebody Already Sued the NYPD Over Controversial Body Scanners
During his 'State of the NYPD' address on Wednesday, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly announced that his department "took delivery" of mobile terhertz devices that can scan people for concealed weapons. Although Kelly carefully skirted the issue of stop-and-frisk, he went into detail about his latest equ ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2013
A Few Questions Raised Over NYPD Commish Ray Kelly's Popularity
And, for that matter, the most popular NYPD commissioner in the City's history (since we started recording this kind of stuff, of course). In yet another Quinnipiac poll, Mr. Kelly's job as top cop was applauded by 75 percent of New Yorkers. These numbers split a bit by ethnicity: whites have h ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2012
"Krills," "Yams," and "Grizz": Decoding NYC Gangsters' Facebook Faux-Pas
In October, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly publicly announced that he was doubling the size of the Department's Anti-Gang Unit and would be stepping up efforts to bust gangsters using social media websites like Facebook and Twitter -- where gangsters have recently taken their turf wars.New York City's ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
Former NYPD Officer Nicholas Mina Headed To The Hoosegow For Selling Guns To Drug Dealers
A former NYPD officer who pleaded guilty last month to charges that he stole several NYPD-issued firearms from fellow officers and sold them to a Queens drug kingpin was in court today, where he was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison.Additionally, former Officer Nicholas Mina -- who claims h ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Zombies Rob Bank
On Saturday, October 27, two men walked into a Capital One Bank at Ovington Avenue and Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn just after 2 p.m. One had on a red plaid shirt, jeans and white tennis shoes. The other had on a gray shirt with jeans and dark sneakers. They were both wearing blue latex glove ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Reminder: Two NYPD Officers Are Being Investigated For Killing/Beating New Yorkers
Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election have dominated the headlines here in the Big Apple for the last two weeks. But let's not forget what was going on in New York before that bitch Sandy dropped by: two NYPD officers are under investigation for what could potentially be pretty appalling cri ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2012
Human Rights Body Criticizes U.S. for NYPD's Policing of Occupy Wall Street
New Yorkers, if they've been paying any attention at all, have known for a long time that the way the NYPD treats journalists and protesters doesn't exactly live up to what you'd expect in a democratic society with a free press. Now, it looks like the NYPD's actions in relation to Occupy Wall Stree ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2012
"Land" and Frisk? Privacy Concerns Abound as NYPD Looks Into Possibility of Drones Patrolling New York Skies
Get excited New Yorkers! Our city is inching one step closer to resembling one of those nightmarish societies depicted in your favorite 20th century dystopian novel with the impending introduction of police surveillance drones into our air space. No, they're not just for the war in Afghanistan. Unm ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2012
Federal Pension Lawsuit Expanded For All City Workers Called to Military Duty After 9/11
All city workers called to military duty after 9/11 will be represented in a lawsuit to recover unpaid pension funds. In early August, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of three retired NYPD officers seeking to recoup pension funds they would've earned had ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2012
Former NYPD Officer Nicholas Mina Cops Plea; Admits To Stealing NYPD Guns And Selling Them To Drug Dealers
A former NYPD officer admitted in court today that he stole several NYPD-issued firearms from fellow officers and sold them to a Queens drug kingpin over a six-month period earlier this year.The plea deal accepted by former officer Nicholas Mina, 32, includes a 15-year-prison sentence when he's sent ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2012
Duo Pulls off Robbery Almost Exactly the Way It's Done in the Movies, Then Decides to Run out with the Safe
NYPD say that yesterday, two robbers robbed a physician's office, because as everyone who has watched a good heist film knows, one guy isn't enough, and more than guarantees that someone's going to snitch. The robbery took place in the 43rd Precinct of the Bronx on 2029 Westchester Avenue (Manhatta ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
NYPD Searching for Man Accused of Abusing 10-Year-Old in Queens Library
The NYPD is asking for the public's help in identifying the man who sexually abused a 10-year-old girl yesterday inside of a Queens Borough Public Library. The incident happened after around 4:00 p.m. yesterday in the Forest Hills, Queens, a neighborhood in the 107th precinct. Authorities don't hav ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
NYPD: A (Video) History Of Violence
Two NYPD officers were caught on video beating the crap out of a young Jewish man because they mistakenly thought he was trespassing when they found him sleeping on a couch in a synagogue and outreach center for troubled youth in Crown Heights.The video is shocking, but it's not even close to the fi ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
City Council To Consider Reining In NYPD Today
It's been a rough week for the NYPD's public image. Last Thursday, police capped off a string of fatal shootings by killing an unarmed National Guardsman in a traffic stop. Just yesterday, audio from a stop-and-frisk of a teen in East Harlem recorded officers calling the kid a "mutt" and threateni ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2012
NYPD Shooting Of Unarmed National Guardsman Noel Polanco Described As Act Of "Police Road Rage"
The early morning shooting of an unarmed National Guardsman by an NYPD officer is being investigated by the Queens District Attorney's Office after a witness to the shooting describes the incident as a case of "police road rage."Noel Polanco, 22, was fatally shot about 5:15 a.m. yesterday after weav ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2012
NYPD Officer Shoots Unarmed Motorist As Off-Duty Cop Supposedly Slept In The Backseat
An NYPD officer fatally shot an unarmed motorist in Queens this morning, as an off-duty cop supposedly slept in the backseat of the car driven by the now-deceased 22-year-old driver.The unidentified motorist was pulled over about 5:15 a.m. today after he was seen weaving in and out of traffic on the ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2012
Federal Court Rules NYPD's Mass Arrests During 2004 Republican National Convention Unlawful
A U.S. District Court judge ruled yesterday that the NYPD unlawfully arrested and fingerprinted hundreds of protestors during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.U.S. District Court Judge Richard Sullivan found that the NYPD acted unlawfully when it carried out mass arrests of d ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
August 25, 2012
NYPD Commish Ray Kelly Confirms That, Yes, the Cops Accidentally Shot 9 People Yesterday
Yesterday, sources told the Voice that eight victims at the Empire State Building shooting were hit by bullets fired by the police officers at the scene. There, we were told that two officers fired off 16 rounds at Jeffrey Johnson, the white-collar employee who sought revenge against his e ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
Paul Browne, NYPD Spokesman, Disses Bridge and Tunnel Cop in Bridge Rescue
In the rapacious competition for good press among government agencies, spokespeople sometimes are too effusive with praise for their own people at the expense of others involved. That's what happened this week following the dramatic July 23 police rescue of a despondent man threatening to jump to ... More >>
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