Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:29:48 +0000
A recent social media post from e-bike owners in New York City shows us that sometimes police priorities are pretty far out of whack. During a time when many Americans are concerned that the police might not be there when they’re needed the most, we’re seeing cops wasting time on something completely useless: E-bike “checkpoints.” […]
Credit to Author: Trone Dowd| Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 14:22:28 GMT
Patricia Rodney went to an NYPD precinct in Brooklyn to get a police report for a lost glucometer. She ended up with a broken arm.
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Credit to Author: Laura Wagner| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:04:06 +0000
In a deposition, Constantin Tsachas rationalized quotas, targeting Black and Latino males, punishing minority cops more harshly than white ones, and having cops lurk in subway station closets.
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Credit to Author: Laura Wagner| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:08:07 +0000
Data show there are higher enforcement rates in high-poverty Black and Latinx neighborhoods.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:07:18 +0000
Now, the NYPD is in possession of at least one of the 20,000 flamethrowers sold by Elon Musk’s Boring Company.
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Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:46:44 +0000
The feds have filed hate crimes charges after finding handwritten journals and other evidence pointing to a motive behind the rampage that left five injured.
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Credit to Author: Jelisa Castrodale| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 22:08:23 +0000
A shitstorm erupted a few days ago after a plainclothes NYPD officer bit into a sandwich in Queens, New York, and got a mouth full of razor blade.
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Credit to Author: Maxwell Strachan| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:18:10 +0000
Today, they are churros. Tomorrow, it could be carrot cake, or banana pudding, or even Tiramisu.
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Credit to Author: Max Daly| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:19:25 +0000
Big claims have been made about the infiltration of fentanyl into America’s cocaine supply. So we got some hard data.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:44:14 +0000
Documents obtained by Motherboard show that NYPD social media officers are explicitly instructed to “be funny” in order to “build trust” on official social media channels.
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