A new series of bills would give police officers the discretion to steer certain low-level broken windows offenses like drinking in public, littering, and public urination to civil court, rather than criminal court.
If the City Council gets its way on a plan to lighten up on some low-level crimes, the city's little-known administrative court system would face a heavy burden.
Attorney General Eric T.
THE BRONX - The family of a Wakefield teenager shot and killed by police in 2012 is continuing their call for justice.
Ramarley Graham was killed in his home by NYPD Officer Richard Haste on Feb. 2, 2012. Graham was 18 at the time.
Surveillance video shows Haste banging on Graham's home after chasing the teen on suspicion of drug possession. He eventually breaks in and fatally shoots Graham in front of family members.
A female undercover NYPD detective “converted” to Islam to spy on Muslim students at Brooklyn College, none of whom were ever accused of a crime. The spying continued for years, long after Mayor de Blasio vowed to end the NYPD's blanket surveillance of the Muslim community.
NEW YORK -- The New York City police officer who shot and killed unarmed Bronx teen Ramarley Graham has received nearly $25,000 in raises since firing the fatal shot almost four years ago -- all while the NYPD and federal government drag out their investigations of the incident.
On Thursday exactly a year ago, New York City was practically on fire. The startling decision last December 3 by a grand jury to not indict Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer behind the videotaped death of Eric Garner, blew the lid off a razzled metropolis whose citizens were already familiar with police brutality and discrimination. By then, of course, protests had spread across the country, due to the nearly concurrent decision with Michael Brown's case in Ferguson. In New York, as in Missouri, the anger was palpable—like you could reach out and touch it. And it stayed that way, for a while.
A leading police reform group blasted NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton today for again blaming protesters for the murders of two police officers last December.
