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Police Chief Admits "Errors Were Made" After Arrest of 10 Elementary School Students
Hudson Hongo · 04/25/16 11:06PMAlleged Sex Abuse Victim Sues Former House Speaker for $1.8 Million in Unpaid Hush Money
Hudson Hongo · 04/25/16 07:31PMMarijuana "Grow Operations" Found at Sites Where Ohio Family Was Murdered
Hudson Hongo · 04/24/16 07:35PMSwiping People Into the Subway Is a Civic Duty So Fuck the NYPD
Hamilton Nolan · 04/18/16 08:40AMBelgian Police Show New Footage of Brussels "Man in Hat" Terror Suspect
Sam Biddle · 04/07/16 08:23AMNYPD's Blowhard Union Boss Is Feeling a Little Scared and a Little Confused
Andy Cush · 04/05/16 10:10AMLet’s look at a few recent headlines published yesterday and today about crime in New York City. “New York City just recorded its fewest shootings ever,” reads a Fusion article from this morning, which aggregated the Huffington Post’s report, “New York City Murder Rate Drops To Historic Low.” Police magazine, however, took a different approach: “NYPD Union Chief Blames ‘Anti-Police Atmosphere’ for Rise in Shootings, Slashings.”
New Orleans' Plagued Public Defender Office Can't Even Afford to Represent Itself in Court
Andy Cush · 03/30/16 05:17PMWith the utter breakdown of the public defender system in Louisiana showing no sign of abating, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has published a profile of an average public defense attorney who has remained loyal to the cause despite having every conceivable reason to find a new job. In a detail that English teachers in Louisiana would no doubt describe as the perfect example of irony if Louisiana education budgets weren’t sitting on the chopping block alongside the public defender system, the article notes that the defender’s office is so broke it can’t even afford a lawyer for itself.
"We Got the Right Spic": Innocent Man Who Spent Year in Rikers to Sue City
Andy Cush · 03/11/16 02:35PMEnger Javier, a Bronx man who was arrested for manslaughter and spent a year in Rikers Island before charges against him were dropped in February, will file a lawsuit against the City of New York on Monday. In the suit, Javier’s attorney alleges that an NYPD detective said, “We got the right spic,” in reference to his arrest, and that he was repeatedly denied when he asked for a lawyer.
Innocent Man Exonerated After 25 Years in Prison
Hamilton Nolan · 03/11/16 10:11AML.A. Spends a Ton of Money to Treat Juveniles Poorly
Hamilton Nolan · 03/07/16 11:07AMKasich Campaign Staffer Was Arrested for Allegedly Choking and Punching a Woman
J.K. Trotter · 03/05/16 05:50PMHacker Who Revealed Hillary's Private Email and George Bush's Paintings Will Face Justice in U.S.
Sam Biddle · 03/04/16 11:59AMOff-Duty NYPD Cop Killed in Hit-and-Run Reportedly Drew Gun, Threatened to Kill Driver Before Being Struck
Andy Cush · 03/02/16 06:20PMNew York City Is in the Throes of a Häagen-Dazs Heist Epidemic
Andy Cush · 02/29/16 05:49PMIs New York a city in decline? DNAinfo reports that last week, an unnamed thief stole $113.80 in Häagen-Dazs ice cream from a Times Square Duane Reade. The news comes after reports of 10 other large-scale Häagen-Dazs thefts over the last four months. Forget about subway slashings—the ice cream thief’s spree is what New Yorkers should really be afraid of.
There Is No Way in Which the War on Drugs Is Not a Failure
Hamilton Nolan · 02/22/16 10:10AMSix Dead at Multiple Locations in “Random” Kalamazoo Shooting
Ashley Feinberg · 02/21/16 03:14AMHamilton Nolan · 02/16/16 09:15AM
A Notorious Former L.A. Sheriff Could Soon Be in Jail
Hamilton Nolan · 02/12/16 09:48AMAndy Cush · 02/11/16 05:25PM
Yesterday, less than a week after the Bronx District Attorney announced that manslaughter charges against Enger Javier would be dropped, a judge formally threw the charges out. Javier, who has long maintained his innocence, spent two years in Rikers Island for the alleged killing, and two more on house arrest.