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NYU Has NYPD Arrest and Pepper-Spray Protesters at Pro-Palestine Student Encampment

"The cops stormed in with their sticks and they started arresting people by the dozen, and they started to pepper-spray people left and right."

April 23, 2024

Eric Adams Announces He’s Matured Into a Mayor Who Is Above Police Accountability

Asked about the lack of consequences for the cops who killed Kawaski Trawick, the mayor said that instead of pushing for accountability, he now has “an obligation and responsibility to use the skills I’ve learned as a pusher to get stuff done in our police department.”

April 16, 2024

Shame Upon New York City: Kawaski Trawick’s Killers to Face No Discipline

Five years after police killed Trawick, the NYPD announced there will be no consequences in a late-Friday news dump

April 12, 2024

Five Years After the NYPD Killed Kawaski Trawick, Eric Adams Is Still Acting Like He and His Family ‘Do Not Exist’

Nearly a year after a disciplinary trial for the cops who killed Trawick, the NYPD has still taken no action, and nobody will explain what they're waiting for.

April 11, 2024

NYC Department of Investigation Confirms What Everyone Already Knew: Cops Aren’t Doing Anything About Parking Permit Abuse

When City investigators reported parking permit violations, police enforced the rules zero percent of the time.

April 3, 2024

The NYPD Is Posting by the Seat of Its Pants

As the department gets increasingly pugnacious on social media, its policies governing official posts remain inexplicably secret.

April 2, 2024

New Subway Security Theater Just Dropped: Controversial AI Weapons Scanner

The mayor convened his top leadership to announce the future testing of a weapons screening system that may or may not work as advertised.

March 28, 2024

Eric Adams: Defund the Police Oversight

The Civilian Complaint Review Board's budget has been so decimated that it has already stopped investigating whole categories of police misconduct.

March 21, 2024