What Can Zohran Mamdani Do to Change the NYPD?
Whether a conflict with the NYPD can be avoided remains to be seen, but observers that Hell Gate spoke to identified a number of modest but meaningful steps the mayor can take early in his term.
The Cops
All about New York's "finest."
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Eric Adams Asked for Photos of Cops Staring at Their Phones, and New Yorkers Delivered
The mayor promised "aggressive actions" to stop cops from playing on their phones while on subway patrol, but that never happened.
This Eric Adams Appointee and NY Post Veteran Is Upending Police Oversight
Civilian Complaint Review Board investigators found evidence of 190 acts of police misconduct in recent cases. Board members made half of them disappear.
Adams and Tisch Promised Police Accountability. The Families of Two Men Killed by Police Are Still Waiting
Win Rozario was killed a year ago. Allan Feliz five years ago. The investigative and disciplinary process for the cops who killed them is still dragging on.
NYPD Commissioner Tisch Is Lobbying Hard to Bring Back the System That Failed Kalief Browder. Her Argument Doesn’t Add Up
Tisch keeps blaming recidivism on discovery reform, but offers no evidence.
The City Raided His Bed-Stuy Weed Shop. He Spent 48 Hours Behind Bars
Karis Thompson was a cannabis dealer trying to go legit before he was swept up in "Operation Padlock to Protect."
How Eric Adams and the NYPD Helped Create the Xenophobic Tren de Aragua Panic
New York City's law enforcement officials were some of the first to push the narrative that a mysterious and deadly Venezuelan gang was running amok, despite little evidence to back it up.
Discovery Reform: Why It Matters, and Who Wants to Kill It
Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to tweak reforms made five years ago. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
Even the NYPD Thought the Knightscope K5 Was a Joke
And more revelations from newly-obtained NYPD surveillance tech documents.
NYPD Inspector General: Police Brass Shitposting Was Stupid and Wrong
NYPD leadership's pugnacious social media behavior violated rules and was a "plainly inappropriate and regrettable uses of official City social media accounts," according to a new NYPD Inspector General report.
NYC’s Biggest Police Union Still Wants to Reserve the Right to Violently Crush Protests
The Police Benevolent Association made its last ditch legal argument to scuttle a settlement that reforms how the NYPD approaches protests.
