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Rhamar Perkins, 16, took advantage of a rookie NYPD officer’s sensibilities this past week and escaped after he was arrested for skipping out on a $2.75 subway fare. He was initially taken into custody by a veteran officer and their partner, but asked to go to the bathroom once the veteran left the room and asked […]

Peter Liang was a rookie NYPD officer walking the stairs of the Pink Houses in New York City. After hearing a noise, he drew his gun, pulled his trigger after being startled and the bullet ricocheted and hit Akai Gurley, 28, in the chest. Liang and his partner then debated over who should report the […]

A little over a year ago, Atlanta Hawks forward Thabo Sefolosha was charged with resisting arrest by NYPD officers during an incident outside of a nightclub. Officers claimed that Sefolosha charged at them, which required them to arrest him, breaking his ankle and forcing him to miss the NBA playoffs after his right fibula was […]

Last month, a New York mail carrier was arrested by a group of plain clothes NYPD officers while delivering a package. A portion of the exchange was captured on video and placed the department under harsh public scrutiny for the officers’ actions. According to the New York Daily News, the lieutenant that oversaw the arrest has been […]

Glen Grays, a USPS employee, was delivering packages in Brookyln on St. Patricks Day when he was arrested by NYPD officers. A video taken by a bystander at the scene shows the four plain clothes officers approaching Grays, handcuffing him and claiming that he was resisting arrest. 

A jury has convicted NYPD officer Peter Liang on a charge of manslaughter after shooting and killing Akai Gurley in November 2014.

The New York news station, NY1, is suing the New York Police Department for charging $36,000 to see police body camera footage. A reporter for the news station sent a Freedom of Information Law request to NYPD’s legal office for 190 hours of unedited videos. Four months later, the police department said that they would […]

  The Chicago police made more street stops last year than the NYPD did at the height of their stop-and-frisk initiative reports the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois. The study found that the Chicago police stopped African-Americans at a disproportionately higher rate than Latinos and whites. All together, more than 250,000 stops were made from last […]

“For New Yorkers who value fair policing, though, the slowdown is an occasion to celebrate,” writes Aurin Squire for the New Republic.

The following piece is from The Root. It was written by Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele. By: Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele Critics say the “broken windows” approach that New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is defending is nothing but a regurgitation of the stop-and-frisk policy that targeted African-American and Hispanic men.

    A 35-year-old Brooklyn black man was unarmed when NYPD officers shot at him in the middle of Times Square on Sept. 14. The officers did not hit Glenn Broadnax, but struck two innocent bystanders. Somehow, Broadnax is being charged with assault for the officers’ negligence. 

    The mother of the gunman who killed two NYPD police officers on Saturday extended her deepest condolences to their families on Monday.