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AP Photo/Evan Vucci One day after President Donald Trump drew cheers and applause from a crowd of police officers by urging them not to be “too nice” to suspected criminals, the commissioner of the New York Police Department denounced Trump’s comments as sending “the wrong message.” “The NYPD’s training and policies relating to the use of […]
Thousands of New York City cops attended a fellow officer’s funeral in the Bronx, but reports of hundreds turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio are being denied by the mayor’s office. De Blasio has faced this form of protest from the NYPD before. Mayor de Blasio (D) apparently irked some in the police […]
Facebook NEW YORK (AP) — A police sergeant has been indicted by a New York City grand jury on a murder charge in the shooting of a 66-year-old mentally ill woman, a death the mayor called tragic and unacceptable. Sgt. Hugh Barry was arrested Wednesday in Deborah Danner’s October death, police said. He was awaiting […]
A privacy group is suing the NYPD for documents related to their secretive and unregulated facial recognition program. They say the technology can misidentify people, causing innocent people to be investigated or arrested. The Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT), a university think tank at Georgetown Law, announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of […]
A think tank is suing the NYPD over its failure to reveal details about its secret facial recognition program. Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology (CPT) alleges that the department hasn’t complied with New York state’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) by forking over information on the system, which the department started using to […]
Thomson Reuters Undercover officers in the New York police department infiltrated small groups of Black Lives Matter activists and gained access to their text messages, according to newly released NYPD documents obtained by the Guardian. The records, produced in response to a freedom of information lawsuit led by New York law firm Stecklow & Thompson, […]
Published time: 24 Mar, 2017 01:59 A Freedom of Information Act request has uncovered evidence that the New York City Police Department not only surveilled protests with recording devices, but was unable to prove they followed standard procedure in doing so. NYPD’s presence at various Occupy and Black Lives Matter protests has been contentious in […]
A New York Supreme Court judge has ruled that the New York Police Department must comply with an information request for files and recordings of undercover surveillance of a Black Lives Matter protest that didn’t result in any arrests. The NYPD had sought to withhold its records from activist James Logue, who had attended a […]
