NYPD
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New York Cop Suspended After Beating 12-Year-Old Girl
An eight-second video of the officer repeatedly hitting the young girl's head went viral online
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Eric Garner's Mom Says NYC Is Stonewalling Investigation Into His Death
"It's a slap in the face," says Gwen Carr about the city holding back court-ordered documents for a judicial inquiry into Garner's death
- Politics
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Frank Serpico: Police See Themselves as 'Judge, Jury, and Executioner'
The legendary whistleblower isn't done calling out corruption
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NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white
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Over a Dozen Black and Latino Men Accused a Cop of Humiliating, Invasive Strip Searches. So Why Did the NYPD Keep Promoting Him?
The men said Assistant Chief Christopher McCormack touched them inappropriately during searches or ordered others to do so. 86 NYPD leaders have at least one credible misconduct allegation on file — McCormack has the most
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Why Won't Cops Wear Masks?
In New York City, widespread use of masks is keeping COVID-19 numbers low — but the cops don't seem be onboard
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NYPD's 'Warrant Squad' Arrested a Trans Teen Protester, Shoved Her Into an Unmarked Van
Division has a history of allegedly targeting vulnerable populations, using low-level violations to obtain info on protesters
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My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid — Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works
After seeing an NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager, Eric Umansky tried to find out how it happened. Instead, he discovered the ways the city's police department is shielded from accountability
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Why Policing Is Broken
Years of research on brutality cases shows that bad incentives in politics and city bureaucracies are major drivers of police violence
- Politics
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Of Course Cops Weren't Poisoned at a Shake Shack
A claim that NYPD officers were served poisoned milkshakes at Shake Shack was quickly proved to be false
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