In the Media

New NYPD commissioner must tackle agency’s public trust issues

11/27/2024
MSN
With the appointment of new NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, as Sanitation Commissioner, led the department to an unprecedented attack on homeless New Yorkers, was named a defendant in litigation that accuses the city of cruelly and unconstitutionally removing encampments of people who are homeless, and expanded the inhumane treatment of people through the sanitation department’s police force, Mayor Adams has shown once again that his commitment does not lie with the public safety of New Yorkers.

Locals in ‘overpoliced’ NYC areas instead want more programs, focus on crime’s root causes: study

10/15/2024
New York Daily News
The “We Deserve To Be Safe” Report, a study done by CPR and the Public Science Project of the CUNY Graduate Center, examines the mood and outlook of people in “overpoliced” areas who want more programs, focusing on crime’s root causes, not more police.

NYPD releases bodycam footage of police shooting at Brooklyn subway platform

09/20/2024
NBC New York
The NYPD on Friday released body-worn camera footage from a weekend shooting at a Brooklyn subway station, two police officers opened fire Sunday afternoon at a Brownsville stop after a man accused of skipping the station turnstile allegedly went after the cops with a knife. He was hit several times, as were two bystanders, a 49-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman.

NYPD officers involved in fatal shooting of gay Black man Kawaski Trawick won't be disciplined

04/23/2024
Advocate
The New York City Police Department, led by Commissioner Edward Caban, has decided not to discipline the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick, a 32-year-old Black gay man, inside his Bronx apartment five years ago, prompting outrage at the department and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The decision not to impose disciplinary action came after the NYPD concluded that the officers, Brendan Thompson and Herbert Davis, “acted within the law” during the incident.

UPDATE Police Commissioner Determines “No Crime” by Officers Involved in Shooting of Kawaski Trawick

04/19/2024
Norwood News

Police Commissioner Edward A. Caban has determined that the two NYPD officers involved in the fatal shooting of Kawaski Trawick on April 14, 2019, inside his supportive housing apartment located at at 1616 Grand Avenue in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx, acted within the law in relation to their actions leading up to what was described by police as “the 32-year-old man’s tragic death.”

 

Queens police shooting: Calls emerge for firing of cops who fatally shot Win Rozaro as he suffered mental health crisis

03/28/2024
AMNY
The police shooting death Wednesday of Queens resident Win Rozaro has reignited calls from advocates to bar the NYPD from responding to mental health crises — and for the officers involved in the deadly incident to be fired. Rozaro himself had called 911 for help on March 27 while experiencing his mental health crisis, prompting a response to his home on 103rd Street in Ozone Park from the 102nd Precinct. Within minutes, he was dead, having been Tased and then fatally shot when he apparently charged at the officers with a pair of scissors.

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