Police Union Slashes Number of ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards Issued
Posted: January 22, 2018 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: New York Post, NYPD, Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Union Leave a commentPatrolmen’s Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch slashed the maximum number of cards that could be issued to current cops from 30 to 20, and to retirees from 20 to 10, sources told The Post.
The cards are often used to wiggle out of minor trouble such as speeding tickets, the theory being that presenting one suggests you know someone in the NYPD.
The rank and file is livid. Read the rest of this entry »
Man arrested in Fifth Ave Apple Store for Going Cuckoo Bananas with a Samurai Sword
Posted: November 20, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Apple, Apple Store, Fifth Avenue Apple Store, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, NYPD, Samurai Sword, Westchester County, Yonkers Leave a comment“The man allegedly went back to screaming and waving around his samurai sword…According to eyewitnesses, right before the man was taken into custody by the NYPD officers, he looked as if he was preparing to harm himself with the sword.”
He was then escorted out of the building, with Apple Store employees building a wall between him and the customers as a layer of protection. When he was outside in front of the store, the man allegedly went back to screaming and waving around his samurai sword.
[You can view a video of the suspect waving the sword around inside the Apple Store by heading to ABC NY’s report.]
He was taken into custody by two New York Police Department officers. According to eyewitnesses, right before the man was taken into custody by the NYPD officers, he looked as if he was preparing to harm himself with the sword. The suspect was then taken to a New York City hospital….(read more)
Source: 9to5Mac
[PHOTO] Director Quentin Tarantino Experiments With His Career
Posted: November 5, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment | Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Cinema, Cops, Director, Filmmaker, Hipster, Hollywood, Law Enforcement, Liberalism, murder, NYPD, Photography, Progressivism, propaganda, pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino, The Left, White Supremacy Leave a commentNew York Post Cover: ‘Just Say it, Quentin, Say You Are SORRY’ Nov 3, 2015
Posted: November 3, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Hateful 8 (movie), Hollywood, media, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspapers, NYPD, Police, Police Shootings, Pulp Fiction (movie), Quentin Tarantino, Tabloid Leave a commentAs Many as 30,000 Police Officers Gather to Honor Fallen NYPD Officer #BrianMoore
Posted: May 8, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore Police Department, Brian Moore, media, NBC News, NBC Nightly News, news, North Charleston, NYPD, Police officer, South Carolina, Twitter, Walter Scott Leave a comment
As many as 30,000 police officers gather to honor fallen NYPD officer #BrianMoore http://t.co/Y0uZBM0m4f @NBCNewYork pic.twitter.com/nc9NZJivbg
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) May 8, 2015
Michael Goodwin on a Murdered Cop: New York Post Front Page for May 6, 2015
Posted: May 5, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYC, NYPD, Police, Tabloid Leave a commentNew York Post Cover: ‘COP KILLER: This Gun Used to Shoot NYPD Hero’ May 5, 2015
Posted: May 5, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Cop Killer, media, New York, New York Post, Newspapers, NYC, NYPD, Police, Tabloid Leave a commentNew York Post ‘READ NO EVIL: City May Erase Report on Islam Terror’ Jan 18, 2015
Posted: January 18, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Islamism, Jihadism, media, New York City, New York Post, news, NYC, NYPD, Tabloid, Terrorism Leave a commentNew York Post Cover: ‘De Blasio Fails to Bridge Gap with Cops at Summit’ Dec 31, 2014
Posted: December 31, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Bill de Blasio, media, New York, New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYC, NYPD, Police, Tabloid Leave a commentNew York Criminals Get Unexpected Bonus
Posted: December 30, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Crime Spree, Global Panic, media, murder, New York Post, news, NYPD, Rape, Robbery, Theft 1 CommentA Message for the Mayor: NYPD officers Fly Banner Along Hudson River
Posted: December 26, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Bill de Blasio, Hudson River, Law Enforcement, NBC Los Angeles, New York, New York City, NYPD, Twitter Leave a commentNYPD officers fly banner along Hudson River: “de Blasio, our backs have turned to you” http://t.co/jDhh2LaZh3 pic.twitter.com/CE7slhwqWR
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) December 26, 2014
New York Post Cover for December 23, 2014 ‘Now He Tells Us To Call 911: Shamed Mayor Bets New Yorkers to Save Cops’
Posted: December 22, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Bill de Blasio, Cops, media, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspapers, NYPD 2 CommentsNew York Post Front Page, Dec 19, 2014: ‘First Alleged Cop Basher Busted, Six More To Go’
Posted: December 19, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: media, New York City, New York Post, news, Newspaper, NYPD, Tabloid 1 Comment“Here Are The ‘Alleged’ Cop Bashers” New York Post Cover, Wednesday December 17, 2014
Posted: December 17, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Bill de Blasio, media, New York City, New York Post, news, NYPD, Protest, Tabloid 1 CommentNew York Post Cover ‘Dante’s Inferno: Police Fury at Mayor’s Racial Smear’ Dec 5, 2014
Posted: December 5, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: De Blasio, Law Enforcement, media, New York City, New York Post, news, NYC, NYPD, protests, Tabloid 3 CommentsNY Post Cover Aug 24 2014: ‘NYPD Helps 9 Shooting Victims as Rev Al Rages’
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: Al Sharpton, Ferguson, NYC, NYPD, Shooting, War on Cops Leave a commentNYPD Sends Out Official Memo Telling Officers They’re Allowed to Be Photographed
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere | Tags: Chief of police, Daily News (New York), First Amendment to the United States Constitution, New York City, New York City Police Department, NYPD, Photography 2 CommentsPhotography, the Law and Photographers Rights
NYPD Cop Attacks Man for Video Recording Him
Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery
The NYPD has sent out an internal memo that tells officers they aren’t allowed to take action to stop someone from photographing or filming them. This comes a whopping two years after Washington DC’s police chief sent out an almost identical memo.
“A Victory in the War on Photography”
— Glenn Reynolds
According to the New York Daily News, the chief of department’s office sent out the memo to the various command centers across NYC on Wednesday. And the memo doesn’t mince words. Here’s a relevant section:
Members of the public are legally allowed to record police interactions. Intentional interference such as blocking or obstructing cameras or ordering the person to cease constitutes censorship and also violates the First Amendment.
However, while the cameras can keep snapping, this memo doesn’t give license to a free-for-all. As common sense would dictate, photographers and videographers are still prohibited from interfering with police operations…(read more)
NYPD Sends Out Official Memo Telling Officers Theyre Allowed to Be Photographed
CHILL: NYPD Sending Out Gun Confiscation Letters to Law Abiding Citizens
Posted: December 1, 2013 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Confiscation, Gun, Gun control, Gun rights, New York, New York City Police Department, NY SAFE Act, NYPD, Second Amendment, Second Amendment Foundation 5 CommentsLaw abiding citizens with legally registered guns are receiving letters from the NYPD ordering them to surrender their firearm.
Who is not receiving the letters? Gangbangers with illegal guns.
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Report: Student Claims Improper Arrest For Filming NYPD Station
Posted: November 7, 2013 Filed under: Censorship, Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice | Tags: Daily News, Illinois, Justin Thomas, New York City Police Department, NYPD, School of Visual Arts, Thomas, YouTube 2 CommentsNEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Brooklyn student has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD, after he said he was arrested for taking video of the outside of a police station, according to published reports.
Cops Can’t Interfere With Filming In Public, Says Attorney
School of Visual Arts graduate student Justin Thomas, 29, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Brooklyn U.S. District Court, according to a New York Daily News report. He claimed he was within his First Amendment rights as he recorded the 72nd Precinct stationhouse in Sunset Park while standing on the sidewalk, the paper reported.
But the suit said a sergeant identified in the suit as Viet Cato came outside and told Thomas he needed a permit, and took the camera away while another officer took the memory card, the newspaper reported. A second undetected memory card preserved the incident, and the law firm Rankin & Taylor PLLC released the video on YouTube.
Stop-and-Frisk and American Freedom
Posted: August 21, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, NYPD, Police, Rudy Giuliani, Scheindlin, Shira Scheindlin Leave a commentRecognizing “furtive movements” is part of basic self-preservation.
Clark Whelton
U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin’s recent decision in Floyd v. City of New York found that the NYPD’s proactive policing strategy—usually known as “stop and question” or “stop and frisk”—violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and is unfair to minorities. Judge Scheindlin sought to remedy these alleged failings by imposing new restrictions on police operations and by calling for better-trained police officers.
Pages 11 and 12 of Judge Scheindlin’s opinion cite a “particularly telling” example of “poor training.” During the trial, two police officers struggled to describe the “furtive movements” that may prompt the NYPD to stop and frisk certain individuals. Among the officers’ descriptions: “Changing direction,” “acting a little suspicious,” “making a movement that is not regular,” being “very fidgety,” “going in and out of his pocket,” “going in and out of a location,” “looking back and forth,” and “getting a little nervous, maybe shaking,” and “stuttering.” Scheindlin’s decision belittles these attempts: “If officers believe that the behavior described above constitutes furtive movement that justifies a stop, then it is no surprise that stops so rarely produce evidence of criminal activity.”
This is not a minor point of jurisprudence. The theory of proactive policing depends on law-enforcement officers being able to detect and interpret “furtive movements.” And yet Scheindlin and everyone else in the courtroom must have been aware that the officers had been asked to do the impossible. Accurately describing furtive movements and behaviors that may or may not indicate criminal intent is like explaining how you know someone is singing or playing off-key. Scheindlin might even have felt sympathy for the officers’ predicament, or perhaps even embarrassment, since she herself (along with everyone else who lives in New York) is perfectly capable of recognizing furtive movements and their potential link with danger.
Safe Streets, Overruled
Posted: August 14, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Brooklyn, HEATHER MAC DONALD, Hispanic, New York, New York City Police Department, NYPD, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Shira Scheindlin Leave a commentA judge’s appalling decision will endanger New York’s most vulnerable residents.
Heather Mac Donald
New York’s 20-year reprieve from debilitating violence may well be over. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlinruled that the New York Police Department has been willfully targeting blacks and Hispanics for unlawful stop, question, and frisks based on their skin color alone, in violation of the Constitution. She appointed a federal monitor to oversee the department and to develop new policies to end its allegedly biased policing practices. If the monitor adopts Judge Scheindlin’s definition of unconstitutional policing, it’s not too soon for New Yorkers to start looking into relocation plans.
How to Increase the Crime Rate Nationwide
Posted: June 12, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: HEATHER MAC DONALD, New York, New York City Police Department, NYPD, Police, Racial profiling, Shira Scheindlin, United States Leave a commentA ruling against the NYPD’s successful ‘stop, question and frisk’ policy would be sure to inspire lawsuits in other cities.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, center, leading a protest against New York police policies in 2012.
The biggest beneficiaries of a dramatically safer New York have been law-abiding residents of formerly crime-plagued areas. Minorities make up nearly 80% of the drop in homicide victims since the early 1990s. New York policing has transformed inner-city neighborhoods and allowed their hardworking members a once-unthinkable freedom from fear.
But the city’s policing, whose key elements include the rigorous analysis of crime data and commander accountability for public safety, also has been dogged by misconceptions, including the notion that New York policing is racist.
That perception is what drove the just-completed litigation. The suit, Floyd v. New York, specifically targeted stop, question and frisk (critics chronically leave out the “question” part, even though only about half of stops go beyond questioning to actually entail a frisk). This practice, sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1968, is at the revolutionary core of New York policing, which aims to stop crime before it happens, rather than simply react to crime after the fact by making an arrest. If a neighborhood has been plagued by purse-snatchings, for example, and an officer sees someone walking closely behind an elderly lady while looking furtively over his shoulder, the cop might stop him and ask a few questions. The stop may avert a theft without resulting in an arrest.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and lawyers from the elite law firm of Covington & Burling, however, charge in Floyd that such proactive tactics are discriminatory, since blacks and Hispanics make up the large majority of individuals stopped and questioned by NYPD cops. The claim ignores the reality that the preponderance of crime perpetrators, and victims, in New York are also minorities. Blacks, for example, constituted 78% of shooting suspects and 74% of all shooting victims in 2012, even though they are less than 23% of the city’s population.