New York Police Department

NYPD Is Stop-And-Frisking At Record Pace

AP | Posted 05.13.2012

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NEW YORK — The latest numbers show the New York Police Department's skyrocketing street stops increased to more than 200,000 stops during the fi...

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Fire Kills Police Captain, Wife, And Two Daughters

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.02.2012

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CARMEL, N.Y. — The suburban New York home where an intense early morning blaze killed a police captain, his wife and daughters on Tuesday had mu...

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A Liberal Lens: An Intimate Photo Essay of Occupy Wall Street

VC Ferry | Posted 04.27.2012

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Where this movement goes, I don't know, but as a photographer and one who cares about the whole, it inspires me to continue to cover it.

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Stunning Historical Photos From NYC's New Massive Archive

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.25.2012

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By Randy Herschaft and Cristian Salazar, AP NEW YORK: The two men were discovered dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan b...

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Racism without Racists: George Zimmerman and the Conundrum of Modern Bigotry

Edward Wyckoff Williams | Posted 04.01.2012

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The conundrum of racism without racistscreates a society in which black males are perceived always and everywhere as the perpetrator, never given the dignity applied to a victim.

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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

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Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.

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Protesters Complain Of Police Monitoring

New York Times | Posted 03.12.2012

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On Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, pr...

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Beyond the Numbers - Stop-and-Frisk from the Perspective of the Profiled

Jason A. Otaño | Posted 05.07.2012

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"Up against the car!" one of the men barks, as the others pushed the three of us up against the vehicle. "Where are the weapons?" The cops must have thought that the three Latinos in leather jackets were there to rob the college students on their way back to campus.

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Yale Students Pose To Say 'Call The NYPD'

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.29.2012

Students at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. are protesting the NYPD after a series of articles revealed the New York police spied on Muslims on ca...

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White House Helped Pay For Surveillance Of Muslim Neighborhoods In NYC

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 04.28.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday it has no control over how the New York Police Department spends millions of dollars in White ...

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NYPD Monitored Muslim Students All Over Northeast

AP | CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 04.19.2012

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NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the ci...

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New York Police Commissioner's Son Gets Rare 'Total Exoneration' Letter In Rape Probe

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 02.08.2012

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NEW YORK -- Manhattan prosecutors closed their two-week rape investigation of Greg Kelly, a local television newscaster and son of the city police com...

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Prosecutors: New York Police Commissioner's Son Will Not Face Rape Charges

www.huffingtonpost.com | The Associated Press | Posted 02.07.2012

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The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Prosecutors say the New York Police Department commissioner's son won't face charges in connection to a rape accus...

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Trans Woman Accuses NYPD Of Handcuffing Her To A Fence For 28 Hours, Other Abuse

Posted 02.05.2012

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A transgender woman who was arrested for a minor infraction is claiming that the New York Police Department subjected her to shocking mistreatment. ...

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NYPD File Urged Increased Tracking Of Shiites, Based Solely On Religion

AP | CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 04.04.2012

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NEW YORK — Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents th...

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Police: 16 Kilograms Of Cocaine Seized At U.N.

AP | By ANITA SNOW | Posted 03.27.2012

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UNITED NATIONS -- A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department sp...

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"Stop and Frisk": A Road to Disaster

David R. Jones, Esq. | Posted 03.13.2012

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Now isn't the time to inflame an already desperate condition with police practices that are likely to further embitter those who are facing a possible lifetime without hope.

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Occupy Wall Street Can't Muster Zuccotti Park Re-Occupation

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 01.11.2012

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NEW YORK -- The barricades may be gone, but the birthplace of the anti-bank movement is hardly re-occupied. On Tuesday night, metal barricades that...

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Occupy Wall Street Activists Could See More Arrests At Newly Re-Opened Zuccotti Park

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 01.12.2012

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Tuesday night, Occupy Wall Street activists flooded into Zuccotti Park once again. They resurrected a downsized version of their library. They carried...

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Man Wrongly Accused Of Rape: NYPD 'Destroyed My Life And They Didn't Even Say Sorry'

Posted 12.13.2011

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A man whose wedding was postponed because New York City police wrongly arrested him for rape says the ordeal has left him out of work and in legal deb...

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The West Indian Day Parade: An Island Woman's Perspective

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 02.07.2012

I am stunned by the disparity in perception on the part of some New York City police officers and the reality of my experiences at the West Indian Day Parade.

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In Response to Occupy Movements, Severity of Police Tactics Varies Widely

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 11.23.2011

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NEW YORK -- In the two months since its inception in a small park in lower Manhattan, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread from coast to coast, ...

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Occupy Wall Street Beware, Christmas Is Coming

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 01.04.2012

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Perhaps the attention paid to Occupy Wall Street will inspire Americans to say "a pox on all their houses" as they head to the ballot box next year. But that's about the best I now expect from this movement.

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Cornel West Allegedly Arrested Taking Part In Rally

Posted 12.21.2011

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Public intellectual and Princeton University professor Cornel West was allegedly arrested taking part in a rally in connection with the Occupy Wall St...

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Why I Am Getting Arrested Today

Carl Dix | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Nypd, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Nypd Stop and Frisk, Police Brutality, Stop and Frisk, New York Police, Police Protest, New York Protests, New York Police Department, Racial Profiling, Black Voices News

Today I am joining arms with Cornel West and others to voluntarily land myself in the custody of the police. We are conducting non-violent civil disobedience to put a Stop to the NYPD policy of "Stop & Frisk."

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