Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

Call it a cri de coeur, a collective cry of the heart, from voices rarely heard -- the city's Muslim community, pushing back for the first time against the NYPD's secret spying on them for the past decade.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

They may have thought themselves gods but they were terribly mortal, consumed by such earthly vanities as ego and ambition.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

Ray Kelly was at his misleading best at the 92nd Street YMHA last week in trashing the Associated Press' Pulitzer prize-winning series about the New York City Police Department's widespread and pervasive spying on Muslims.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

So there's a deal: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn keeps Ray Kelly as police commissioner if she's elected mayor, according to the NY Post.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

City Council Speaker and mayoral front-runner Christine Quinn, who appeared to favor reappointing Ray Kelly police commissioner, meets with former Police Commissioner Bratton.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was not in the holiday spirit as he prepared to set off from the Plaza on his Christmas Eve stroll.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

Neither the NYPD nor Jamaica Hospital committed a crime when they forcibly took whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft from his home and held him in the hospital's psych ward for three days against his will.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

There are many reasons not to create an inspector general to monitor the NYPD. But those offered by Michael Best, counselor to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are not good ones.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

The NYPD is opening a branch in Kfar Sava. In Israel. Are you kidding me? It's not enough that the NYPD's Demographics Unit was virtually thrown out of New Jersey for spying on Muslims across the state.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

So the NYPD's Demographics Unit never produced a single lead to a terrorist plot in the last six years and probably not in its entire decade-long existence.

Eli B. Silverman , Jesse Levine and John A. Eterno

Professor Emeritus, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of City University of New York

When the NYPD protects and serves its reputation for reducing crime, it does not protect and serve the people of New York; these are conflicting priorities.

Tom Allon

Former Candidate for Mayor of New York City

A new study reveals that the city's much-acclaimed crime declines over the past two decades may partially be the result of cooking the books. This merits investigation so New Yorkers can know the true crime statistics from their borough.

Brad Lander

Member, NY City Council

This Sunday, on Father's Day, I will be marching with tens of thousands of other New Yorkers to call for reform of stop-and-frisk. We cannot accept a New York where people are subject to civil liberties violations based on the color of their skin.

John C. Liu

New York City Comptroller

With its disastrous fallout and questionable payoff, it is time to abolish this divisive and ill-conceived tactic. Stop-and-frisk is racially biased, ineffective, and has created considerable costs for the city.

Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski

Dean, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York City

What we know for sure is that Trayvon Martin is dead. We may also learn again that the false assumptions that undergird all sorts of profiling endanger our citizens and visitors, and divide us against each other.

Len Levitt

Veteran police reporter and author

The Associated Press's expose of the NYPD's widespread and legally questionable spying on Muslims, deservedly and importantly, received a Pulitzer Pri...