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Paul Browne

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Bronx Advocates Call for Alternatives to Arrests of Students Inside Public Schools (UPDATED)

    This afternoon, parent advocates in the Bronx are organizing a march that will start at a transportation hub in the borough, move to a suspensions hearing center onward to an early care education site, and then to an elementary school and a middle school. The final destination of the rally is a juve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

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

    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 has been officially silent, but for one brief comment from its spokesman. The mayor's office hasn't s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Will the NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme Threaten Investigations?

    No surprise here: Spying on Islamic communities might make Muslims mistrust police, creating difficulties in gathering intel, the FBI's top cop in New Jersey says. Religion News Service (via Washington Post) reports that Muslims are now wary of law enforcement after reports revealed that the NYPD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Black and Hispanic Students Targeted Unfairly by School Cops, NYCLU Claims (UPDATE)

    ​The NYPD took over school safety in 1998, and the New York Civil Liberties Union claims that cops have since abused their position, using their role to stop-and-frisk students. Today, the NYCLU released what's said to be the first study chronicling student arrest and summons data, and resul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Cyrus McGoldrick, CAIR Civil Rights Manager, on Ray Kelly's Apology

    As Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne continue to deal with fallout from the use of the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad in NYPD training, some Muslim groups are beginning to call for their resignations. A protest organized by the Council of American-Islamic Relations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Mike Bloomberg: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly Should Not Step Down

    Bombarded by questions about the controversies (yes, plural) developing around Ray Kelly, Mayor Mike Bloomberg told reporters this afternoon that the police commissioner should not step down. In case you missed it, news surfaced this week that the New York Police Department showed around 1,500 off ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

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

    ​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 Commissioner Ray Kelly admitted he gave an interview to the filmmakers, and called it a mista ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

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

    ​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 breaking the story--as a "spectacularly offensive smear of American Muslims." Back in late 2010 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Yes, You Can Pray on the Subway. Sort of.

    As recently sighted by Alex Aizenberg on the R train between the Atlantic and Union Street stops in Brooklyn, the above, added in magic marker to a posted sign, is an exhortation to pray on the subway. (But don't smoke, litter, or blast your annoying boombox, please.) Also, don't put your feet on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street Pre Dawn Raid: A Photojournalist's Account

    ​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 to slip past the police cordon and get into the park, and that he was detained by police and ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 19, 2011

    Ray Kelly Versus the First Amendment--On My Street

    ​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 to slip past the police cordon and get into the park, and that he was detained by police and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    This Is What the Occupy Wall Street Arrest Pattern Looks Like

    C.S. MuncyCops faced off against protesters this morning in the Financial District.​A number of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested this morning during confrontations with the police on various streets in the Financial District. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne puts the number at 14. One man ... More >>

  • Columns

    October 5, 2011

    Spinning Out of Control

    Paul Browne's mouth finally starts getting him into trouble

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Helicopter Has Crashed in the East River Bearing Five Passengers [Updated]

    According to reports, a helicopter has gone down in the East River. NYPD divers have rescued four people and one is reportedly unconscious -- we haven't heard reports of the fifth person's status. Police spokesman Paul Browne told the AP that the private Bell 206 helicopter plunged into the river of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Are Cops Telling Women Not to Wear Skirts Because of the Brooklyn Rapist?

    According to this piece in the Wall Street Journal, cops have been telling women in the areas affected by the Slope Sex Fiend (or whatever it is we're calling him/them) to avoid wearing skirts and shorts because it's "easy access." A young woman named Lauren is quoted saying that she and two friends ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    There Will Be a Protest to Protest the Treatment of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

    Occupy Wall Street is now in its 12th day. This morning brought another march on Wall Street. In other cities, similar efforts are springing up. And, there are now efforts to protest the treatment the protesters have gotten from the NYPD -- most dramatically and media-attention-getting, the pepper-s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    150-Year-Old Law Against Wearing Masks Used to Arrest Wall Street Demonstrators

    ​Yesterday we reported that seven people had been arrested for participating in Occupy Wall Street, the vaguely defined, relatively disorganized financial-district protest that's been going on (and dwindling down) for the past few days. Amid accusations of excessive police force, there was als ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn Councilman, Detained for Walking on Sidewalk

    Yesterday afternoon during the West Indian Day Parade, in the midst of various incidences of gun violence, there was another incident involving the NYPD. Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, along with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's aide Kirsten John Foy, was handcuffed and briefly detained by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    NYPD Once Again Dumps Police Documents in Public Trashcan

    via​Back in May, Bucky Turco over at Animal NY discovered a bunch of seemingly rather sensitive NYPD documents -- just a counterterrorism plan and whatnot -- plopped in a garbage can in front of NYPD's Manhattan South Task Force station at 42nd Street. He wrote about it (and so did we) hoping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Hey Ray Kelly, NYPD Commish, Norwood News Wants to Know Why You Won't Release Crime Stats

    ​While much of the local media accept the NYPD's resistance to providing public information, the stalwart editors of the tiny Norwood News weekly in the Bronx are at least trying to do something about it. Editor in Chief Jordan Moss and Managing Editor Alex Kratz have taken to posting a cloc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Union Square Park Not Completely Clean After All

    Esther Zuckerman​The New York Post reported Monday that "law and order" has returned to Union Square Park by way of tough love from the NYPD. Because the claim seemed a little hyperbolic, we went to the park around 7 p.m. Tuesday to check things out. Although the park's stretch known as "Metha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Tompkins Square Park Chess Table Arrest Was for Another Crime Entirely

    Wikipedia​Yesterday, Gothamist brought us the story posted on the blog Neither More Nor Less of Lisa, a woman who claimed she was arrested for sitting at a Tompkins Square Park chess table without playing chess, allegedly in violation of a sign that states, "These tables are for chess and chec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Yes, Ladies, You Can Walk Around the City Topless

    via @olidub​Yesterday, we reported that a woman was spotted strolling the Bowery topless. Yes, full-on topless, no bra, no shirt, just boob. Two of them. One photo suggests that the woman was getting a ticket from two cops, but some of you commenters pointed out that this lady had every right ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    1 in 4 Parking Permits Are Phony, Says Report

    Transportation AlternativesMore than half of those thousands of precious parking permits in the city are either legal permits used illegally or simply illegitimate permits in the first place. And nearly one in four official parking permits are "illicitly photocopied, fraudulent or otherwise invalid. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    The Rumbler Vibration Siren Coming to New York City

    ​The NYPD has announced "the Rumbler," a new siren for cop cars designed to alert "even the most distracted cellphone-yakking, text-messaging or headphone-addled pedestrian or motorist," according to the New York Post. That is what we need! Louder streets. It can supposedly cut through the ubi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Digitally Inclined Hookers Choose Facebook

    ​Just because you're a prostitute doesn't mean you're on Facebook, and just because you're on Facebook doesn't mean you're a prostitute (it doesn't!), but there does seem to be a link between the two, at least according to a sociology professor at Columbia. Sudhir Venkatesh says that 25 percen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    NYPD's Muslim Horror Flick Sparks Outcry

    Morgan Schweitzer​A major city Islamic organization is putting a few tough questions to the NYPD about how a loony Muslim-bashing movie came to be shown to city cops, as reported in this week's Voice. "Our nation's battle against terrorism is only made more difficult whenever security officers ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 19, 2011

    NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick

    Experiments in Terror

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Autopsy Inconclusive for Sylvie Cachay, Woman Found Dead in Bathtub at SoHo House; Cops Seek Warrant for Her Ex

    via Apparel News​Yesterday we told you about the mysterious death of Sylvie Cachay, the New York swimsuit designer found dead in an overflowing bathtub at The Soho House. Police are now seeking a warrant for Cachay's former boyfriend Nicholas Brooks, whom she's believed to have broken up with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Ray Kelly's Harvard Club Membership Fees, Food Paid by Non-Profit Police Foundation (Updated)

    ​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gets his annual $1,500 membership dues at the fancy Harvard Club paid for by the non-profit Police Foundation, Leonard Levitt's blog One Police Plaza Confidential is reporting. That alone is fairly controversial because regular street cops, as Levitt notes, aren ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Ray Kelly's Spokesman Paul Browne Denies "Quotas," Union Boss and Crime Commission Chief Beg To Differ

    ​Citizens Crime Commission President Richard Aborn and police union president Patrick Lynch offered their takes this afternoon on the newest of the "NYPD Tapes," which reveal precinct commanders threatening to penalize officers who don't hit their quotas. "My belief is that quotas are not go ... More >>

  • 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 7, 2010

    NYPD Quotas leading to Civil Rights Violations, New Lawsuit Says

    ​The city is facing a new class action lawsuit filed by nine New Yorkers over the NYPD's use of quotas to get officers to issues summonses and stop-and-frisk people, court records show. The lawsuit, filed late last month in federal court in Manhattan, cites some of the quotations which appear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Ray Kelly's Crime Stats Are Suspect: Two New Polls

    Can we trust your data, commissioner?​Well, the results are in. Amid lingering questions about the NYPD's crime statistics, a new poll of 1,000 New Yorkers gives Police Commissioner Ray Kelly a 70 percent approval rating. But just 54 percent of New Yorkers said they trust the city's crime stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Cushy NYPD Gang Deployment Apparently Lost in Bermuda Triangle

    ​More on Mayor's Bloomberg's curious offer to send veteran police detectives to help out the police in the resort island of Bermuda, where he just happens to own a $10.5 million mansion: Bermuda Public Safety Minister David Burch said on Tuesday that his government "had accepted the offer" fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    NYPD Gang Cops Get Serious About Gangs -- In Bermuda

    ​Talk about a cushy assignment! It would appear that the NYPD has agreed to send gang intelligence investigators to the lavish resort island of Bermuda to help out the cops there. Who arranged this posh retreat? Why, according to Bermuda's paper of record, it was Mayor Michael Bloomberg h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    NYPD Still Mum On Logo Crackdown, Retirees Not so Mum

    It's now been 24 hours since the Voice asked Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's spokesman Paul Browne for a comment on the NYPD's campaign to stop its own retirees from using the department logo. (See our story here.) No response. Not even an acknowledgement that the emails were received. We've now as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Ray Kelly Feels the Obama Love

    While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters.    Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2008

    Bad NYPD Cops Only Get Tough Talk from the Civilian Complaint Board

    While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters.    Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    Cops Seek Man Who Fatally Slashed Upper East Side Shrink

    While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters.    Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2008

    'Weekend at Bernie's' Check Scam Foiled

    While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters.    Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2007

    Exposing Sexual Harassment on the Subways

    While bold-faced names toasted the Obama inauguration in Washington, star-struck police commissioner Ray Kelly held a little fete of his own today on city time at police headquarters.    Kelly invited members of the bloated headquarters staff down to the room where he gives press conf ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    March 13, 2007

    Cop Killers

    What a week: Badge-wearers who kill get indicted; and a nut job blows away two aspiring flatfoots

  • News

    February 27, 2007

    Day of Rage

    Behind the scenes of the NYPD crackdown at the GOP convention

  • News

    January 2, 2007

    Suspects as Usual

    After the Sean Bell shooting, the NYPD opened a surprising investigation—into the victims

  • News

    November 28, 2006

    Guns Gone Wild

    NYPD gunfire goes up while crime goes down. What gives?

  • NYC Life

    April 4, 2006

    Chelsea Mourning

    Nightclubs get the whip, but the cabaret law is still kicking

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2006

    Critical Mass: NYPD Carries Smaller Stick This Week

    Nightclubs get the whip, but the cabaret law is still kicking

  • News

    May 24, 2005

    Protection Racket

    Questions about Albany's cut of New York's homeland security money

  • News

    August 10, 2004

    Turf Wars

    Mayor Bloomberg's latest objection to Central Park anti-war rally: it's just not safe

  • More >>
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