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Just learned about this case. If the allegations are true, not only was a NYPD officer committing armed robberies, he was violating the city’s residency rules by living in New Jersey. From NorthJersey.com: FBI used cellphone data to track suspect in Carlstadt perfume heist Thursday, December 9, 2010 Last updated: Thursday December 9, 2010, 5:59 [...]
In a disturbing – but, alas, unsurprising – report in the Times of February 6th, William K. Rashbaum reports that NYPD precincts, in order to revise downwards the value of items reported stolen (making, for instance, a grand larceny – a felony – into a petit or “petty” larceny – a misdemeanor) have resorted to [...]
From The Daily News, Thugs slay Brooklyn social worker Douglas Smith in fight over exercise equipment: A Brooklyn social worker described as “the picture of health” was slain at his neighborhood gym in a feud over exercise equipment. Douglas Smith, 50, was knifed and clobbered with a hammer by a pair of muscleheads who attacked [...]
Via Inhabitat: the NYPD has purchased 40 Nissan Hybrids – 22 to be used unmarked, 18 as marked blue-and-white “RMPs” (internal terminology for “Radio Motor Patrol [vehicles]). If it takes – it’ll be significant – but we don’t have the numbers at hand. Cross-posted on Popular Logistics.
We’re reminded by the office of District Attorney Joe Hynes that 2009 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Lt. Giuseppe (Joseph) Petrosino, the first NYPD officer killed abroad in the line of duty. He’d been sent to Sicily to investigate organized crime. Mr. Hynes and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly will be at a [...]
From Kim Zetter on Wired – Thief Steals Sensitive Data from NYPD- and from a “secure building” which also housed backup servers for Google and Yahoo. Personal information on more than 80,000 current and retired New York police officers was stolen from a supposedly secure data warehouse that stored NYPD pension fund data. The stolen [...]
Jen Chung at Gothamist and Al Baker of the Times have good coverage of the new, much-increased Department of Homeland Security grant to provide security for New York City subways, including the 16 underwater tunnels that link the boroughs to each other, and to the mainland (the Bronx, of course, is actually on the mainland). [...]
In a proposal that we first thought had been written by The Onion, City Council member Peter F. Vallone, Jr., at the behest of the New York City Police Department, has proposed legislation which, t use the description of Ellie Engler, of the United Federation of Teachers, would be the equivalent of “universally requiring permits [...]
We hold police officers to high standards of conduct – not least being truthful about bad outcomes that arise from their work. Part of the bargain ought to be that, in return, the government be equally frank towards police officers – and a high level of care in training and equipping them. As a citizen, [...]