The WORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak is running down this story first reported by Leonard Levitt on his NYPD Confidential, about New York’s Finest (several of whom have been indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal; check out NY Daily News, Your Free Press, Huffington Post, Hizb ut-Tahrir America, et. al).
Posts Tagged ‘NYPD’
NYPD Spying on Hunter-CUNY Muslim Clubs
Monday, September 26th, 2011Savvy Straphanger This Guy
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
How savvy, I thought.
I should have stayed as long as he was to be there to see what was to happen next but I wanted to be on time for my class. Would NYPD roust him? How did the idea come about? Much better than trying to find comfort in those anti-roosting seats [in the background] to discourage the homeless from napping. Yet, something inside me wanted to scream.
Frack the Tabloids: Why I Subscribe to The Chief and Encourage Savvy Students to Do the Same
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010NYPD Brutality Costs New York City Taxpayers Millions …
Thursday, May 6th, 2010… but New Yorkers Not People of Color love the head-bangers soooo that the City’s paramilitary force can get away with – literally and figuratively – mayhem and murder. New York Civil Liberties Racial Justice Project: Hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers of Color stopped and frisked.
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To: Louis Mader, Director, Department of Public Safety, Hunter College
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Normally, I would follow up an email like the one below with an email or a phone call or a visit if I didn’t get a response. There have been times, though not recently, when I would post on Hunter-L if I didn’t get a sufficient response. Hunter-L being a main campus listserv for information and scandal and mischief.
However, these aren’t normal times (the NYCLU has recently filed a lawsuit against the NYPD for its stop-n-harass SWAT tactics of hundreds of thousands of People of Color in NYC annually) and I didn’t get a response and I’m feeling, sniff, a bit sensitive.
So (not personal, just business):
NYPD Blooper
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Let’s see what happens with this:
October 31, 2009
Paul J. Browne
Deputy Commissioner, Public Information
One Police Plaza – Room 1320 
New York, N.Y. 10038
Dear Deputy Police Commissioner Browne,
On Friday, October 23, about 2 p.m., I arrived at City Hall to videotape footage of the front of City Hall for a student journalism project and was told by the officer operating the screening machine that I couldn’t pass through because “they” didn’t want anyone to videotape the building. So, I am writing to learn what are the guidelines. This was not my first time at City Hall to take pictures and/or videotape, so I would like to know if there are have been any changes.
Thanks,
Gregg Morris
Assistant Professor
Hunter Collegegmorris@hunter.cuny.edu
Sent to Cristine Quinn, Speaker, 12:41 a.m. October 26
Random Shot – Couldn’t Resist the Luminosity of the Pea Green
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Irresistible
NYPD Preying on NYC’s Black and Latinos? – Stats From New York Civil Liberties Union
Friday, August 14th, 2009NYPD has stopped and interrogated more innocent people during the first six months of 2009 than during any six-month period since it began collecting data on its troubling stop-and-frisk program: The overwhelming majority of whom were black and Latino. They did nothing wrong but … their names and home addresses are now stored in an NYPD database.
The Danger of Friendly Fire: Black Police Officers Disproportionately at Risk of Being Shot …
Friday, June 12th, 2009… by white colleagues who mistake them for criminals. That danger was tragically underscored in New York City last month, when Omar Edwards, a young African-American officer who was chasing a suspect, was shot to death by another police officer. The New York Police Department, and police departments across the country, must do everything possible to prevent such tragedies.
The New York New York Police Department says such “friendly fire†killings are rare, and it could not provide accurate statistics on how often they happen. But a provisional list provided by the department of fatalities caused by mistaken identity offers some sense the problem. Of the five officers mistakenly killed by colleagues since the 1970s, three were black and one was Hispanic.
– New York Times Editorial, June 11
Read more here. Regarding the Times’ editorial headline, The Danger of Friendly Fire, what if the friendlies have minds poisoned? Can they really be regarded as friendlies?
For what it’s worth, my words about the shooting of Omar Edwards.
Wow! A Very Savvy 17-Year-Old Youth
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011The Daily News reported:
After he was beaten, according to the News, the youth, Tyre Davis, contacted Internal Affairs and the NYPD duo – Joseph Murphy, 26, and Jose Ocasio, 28 – was arrested. There’s no mention of a lawyer helping the youth. There’s no mention of how the News got the story.
But if this story is accurate, it’s impressive that this kid was savvy enough to fight to protect his rights. Hoorah!
Headline: ‘It smells like doo-doo’ quip prompted cops’ attack, Bronx teen Tyre Davis says – Full story here.
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