New York City-Despite the fact that New York is cutting teachers, social services and the subway system, they still had enough money to spend more than $75 million to arrest people for small amounts of marijuana. Alternet reports: Three members of the New York City Council joined advocates and community members on the steps of […]
New York– A Queens woman is blaming police for her 72-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack over a week ago, when she said they tried to write her a summons for not wearing a seat belt. The widow Doris Hudson claims the officers made her husband walk a half mile home to get her I.D. in […]
Haiti — Officer Joseph Jacquet is one of six Haitian-born NYPD officers on a three-month rotation in Port-au-Prince.
(HARLEM-WNYC) Al Sharpton teamed up with the NYPD for a gun buy back on Harlem, New York City. WNYC reports: A gun buyback held in Harlem by the New York Police Department and the Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network brought in more than 350 weapons. Saturday’s event at Saint Mark the Evangelist and Memorial […]
Brooklyn — A brawl between what appears to be high school students and the NYPD was caught on tape and posted on YouTube. The fight appears to be at the Broadway Junction Subway stop in Brooklyn. RELATED STORIES Woman Says Cops Brutally Beat Her For Not Picking Up Dog Poop NYPD Paid $1 Billion In […]
New York — Several of the suspects in the recent Columbia University drug bust called “Operation Ivy League” have spoken out. One Columbia University student, Christopher Coles has said that the bust is about headlines and another CU student Jose Stephan Perez, has said that police made him wear a Columbia University sweater. The New […]
New York — The New York Daily News is reporting on an incident where a Queens, New York woman, Ann Stanczyk is claiming that she was beaten by NYPD for not picking up dog feces when asked to. “They saw my dog and they said I didn’t clean up,” said Stanczyk, fighting back tears as […]
NEW YORK — A Wall Street financial worker says New York City police officers responding to a noisy domestic dispute in 2004 sodomized him with a baton, allegations that recall the more notorious cases of a Brooklyn tattoo parlor employee in 2008 and Haitian immigrant Abner Louima a decade earlier.
NEW YORK (AP)-– The New York Police Department is taking photographs of the irises of crime suspects along with their fingerprints and mug shots. The NYPD says the images will be used to help avoid cases of mistaken identity. The process takes about five seconds. Suspects will be scanned using handheld devices when they’re arrested […]
NEW YORK – The fiancee and friends of an unarmed man killed in a 50-bullet police shooting on his wedding day said they wanted justice. The legal system gave them money — more than $7 million. The city did what it has done time and time again: pay. Nearly $1 billion has been paid over […]
In the wake of yet another NYPD murder, this time 23 year-old Emmanuel Paulino was killed in Manhattan for brandishing a 4-inch pocketknife, those keeping score might have noticed that aside from Gideon Bush who was Jewish, even a police historian would be hard pressed to name another NYPD murder victim that wasn’t Black or […]
A grieving Brooklyn preacher set aside his broken heart Wednesday and – with a simple handshake and a few touching words – forgave the disgraced cop who killed his daughter.
