Revealed: NYPD complaints surge under Adams to reach highest level since 2012
Records also show displays of impunity and instances of officers wearing possible white supremacist morale patches
May 2024
Outrage over police violence at pro-Palestine rally in Brooklyn
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First Thing: violence at UCLA as Gaza protest camp attacked by counter-demonstrators
February 2024
‘A gift to Moscow’: dismay as NYPD takes part in UAE Swat games with Chechnya and Belarus
Event has already been widely used as PR opportunity for notorious Chechen unit accused of war crimes in Ukraine
November 2023
Complaints against NYPD hit 11-year high under pro-police mayor Adams
Concern that community relations are suffering as return to 1990s-style ‘broken windows’ policing focused on anti-social behavior
October 2023
Ex-NYPD officer allegedly made deals for fentanyl and heroin while on duty
New York police seek suspect after activist stabbed to death at bus stop
September 2023
New York plan to monitor Labor Day parties with drones prompts outcry
Police accused of playing ‘fast and loose’ with New Yorkers’ rights to due process and to freely hold peaceful gatherings
August 2023
New York man on motorbike dies after officer throws picnic cooler at head
Erik Duran suspended over death of Eric Duprey, who was driving motorcycle on Bronx sidewalk towards group including Duran
July 2023
New York to pay $13.7m to George Floyd protesters arrested or beaten by police
City agrees payout to settle class-action lawsuit from thousands who say they were victims of police brutality in 2020 protests
June 2023
New York police chief Keechant Sewell quits after 18 months
Sewell, first woman to hold post, says ‘my time here will come to a close’ amid reports of tension with mayor Eric Adams
May 2023
‘A budget is a moral document’: why does the NYPD need $29m a day?
The Museum of Broken Windows aims to explore what New York City could be like if funds were diverted from the police
March 2023
New York to pay millions to protesters mistreated in 2020 George Floyd protest
City settles lawsuit after hundreds of protesters were arrested, detained and subjected to excessive force in the Bronx
February 2023
Malcolm X’s family to sue FBI, NYPD and other agencies over assassination
One of Malcolm X’s daughters says new details show federal and state agencies covered up crucial evidence
December 2022
I was hospitalized against my will. I know firsthand the harm it can cause
New York City’s plan to expand involuntary hospitalization is the opposite of ‘compassionate care’
November 2022
New York City mayor’s longtime friend now holds high-paid NYPD job
Lisa White, who earns $241,000 a year, is one of a number of Eric Adams’s friends, family and former colleagues hired to top roles
July 2022
‘Egregious acts of violence’: why is Eric Adams cracking down on subway buskers and mango sellers?
The NYPD has dramatically increased low-level arrests, especially targeting those trying to make a living on the streets
June 2022
The borough that figured it out: how Brooklyn reduced gun violence
Brooklyn has addressed the pandemic’s surge in gun violence with a strategy that would once have been a nonstarter: using police and incarceration as a last resort
