Did the NYPD Check If This Controversial Unit Was Making Constitutional Stops? Nope
A federal monitor's letter sent Monday says the department failed to audit the unit's stops, searches, and frisks for three years.
A federal monitor's letter sent Monday says the department failed to audit the unit's stops, searches, and frisks for three years.
Don’t tell the Police Benevolent Association we repealed 50-a.
After a total lockdown of Washington Square Park, cops cleared out vendors from Tompkins Square Park just 90 minutes before 4:20 p.m.
"This decision means that police have been stopping and ticketing cyclists who've been 100 percent lawfully complying with the leading pedestrian interval law."
The situation is absurd. The stakes are real.
The mayor, governor, City Council speaker, and other New York officials past and present agree: It is wrong, and not funny at all, and perhaps a crime, to throw snowballs at New York's Finest.
The court-appointed stop-and-frisk monitor may be starting to wonder.
"DA Katz wants to put him in prison. Hasn't he suffered enough? Locking him up will destroy his life."
"This is why officers should not be responding to medical support calls."
It's every son of a conservative TV host's First Amendment right to deliver video clips that a City lawsuit claims are "harmful," and "cannot be released to the public."
It's too early to expect any massive changes to the nation's largest police department—but here are a few things we've noticed so far.