NEW YORK — The NYPD has formed a unit to monitor social media outlets Facebook, Twitter and Myspace to find out information about illegal flash mobs, house parties and gang fights. The New York Daily News reports: Newly named Assistant Commissioner Kevin O’Connor, one of the department’s online and gang gurus, has been put in […]
NEW YORK — Officer Daniel Hernandez is suing the NYPD for denying him overtime after he shot and paralyzed Ahmed Evans who is suing Hernandez over the shooting. The New York Daily News reports: Officer Daniel Hernandez claims that as a result of being kept off the street since July 2008, he’s been “damaged in […]
NEW YORK — Two female African American police officers have made history by becoming the first top cops to command a city precinct. Deputy Inspector Juanita Holmes and Capt. Vanessa Kight are now the top cops at Brooklyn’s 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvestant. Women comprise 17.2% of uniformed officers in the NYPD. African-Americans make up 16.5% […]
NEW YORK — Tyre Davis, a 17-year-old from the Bronx is claiming that NYPD officers, Joseph Murphy and Jose Ocasio, beat him after he made a comment about “doo-doo” when one of the officers stepped in dog excrement. The New York Daily News reports: He said Murphy and Ocasio followed him when he was released […]
NEW YORK — The New York City Police Department is changing its stop and frisk forms, so cops can check off reasons for using force. The “Reason For Force Used” field allows cops to check off a box of six selections: suspect reaching for suspected weapon, suspect flight, defense of self, defense of other and […]
NEW YORK — 100 years ago Tuesday, the New York Police Department welcomed its first Black officer, Samuel Jesse Battle, championing color barriers and becoming the first Black sergeant and lieutenant. However, at 6-foot-2, 240 pounds, Battle faced racial opposition. Though he scored high enough for an appointment with the police department, upon showing up […]
NEW YORK — Former NYPD officer Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was sentenced to 20 years in jail for robbing drug dealers. Arbaje-Dia claimed he turned to robbing drug dealers to make mortgage payments on his new house. The New York Daily News reports: Defense lawyer Priya Chaudhry tried to win sympathy for his client in sentencing papers […]
NEW YORK—A New York police officer is suing the department, claiming she was punished for rejecting her superior’s sexual advances after he texted her a photo of his penis. Officer Lisette Pedrosa said Lt. Salvatore Marchese began sexually harassing her in February 2010 when the two worked together at the 25th Precinct in East Harlem. […]
NEW YORK-Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard Isnora and Marc Cooper who were acquitted for killing Sean Bell in a high profile 2008 trial, are now facing an NYPD disciplinary trial according to the New York Daily News: The NYPD would not provide any information on what would happen in the trial room, and lawyers for the […]
NEW YORK — A huge crowd gathered outside the criminal court in Manhattan yesterday, in protest of the acquittal of two police officers charged with raping a drunken women in her apartment. Huffington Post reports: The protest was organized by a coalition of women’s rights groups, including Permanent Wave and Feministing. The purpose of the […]
NEW YORK- The NYPD is placing bags in public view full with items such as IPods and cash and then arresting people if they take the bag or its contents in an initiative called “Operation Lucky Bag”. The New York Daily News reports: Attorney Norman Siegel said people who are arrested through Operation Lucky Bag […]
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 […]
