Mass arrests at 2004 RNC were unconstitutional -- sue, sue, sue.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/nypd_tactics_at_2004_rnc_ruled_illegal/
― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
why sure, Mr Murdoch
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/30/rupert_murdoch_begs_top_cop_to_run_for_nyc_mayor/
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 May 2013 11:24 (ten years ago) link
C.I.A. Report Finds Concerns With Ties to New York Police
(One) officer believed there were “no limitations” on his activities, the report said, because he was on an unpaid leave of absence, and thus exempt from the prohibition against domestic spying by members of the C.I.A.
Another embedded C.I.A. analyst — who was on its payroll — said he was given “unfiltered” police reports that included information unrelated to foreign intelligence, the C.I.A. report said.
The once-classified review, completed by the C.I.A. inspector general in December 2011, found that the four agency analysts — more than had previously been known — were assigned at various times to “provide direct assistance” to the local police. The report also raised a series of concerns about the relationship between the two organizations.
The C.I.A. inspector general, David B. Buckley, found that the collaboration was fraught with “irregular personnel practices,” that it lacked “formal documentation in some important instances,” and that “there was inadequate direction and control” by agency supervisors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/nyregion/cia-sees-concerns-on-ties-to-new-york-police.html
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
de Blasio picks Bratton to return as commish
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 December 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link
2004 RNC protesters settle for $18 million
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/15/republican-national-convention-protesters-new-york-city-lawsuit-arrest_n_4603452.html
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
shuttin' it down
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/15/303425055/nypd-shuts-down-controversial-unit-that-spied-on-muslims
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Here are the cop toys for fingerprinting you in a sidewalk stop-and-zap! this'll be FABULOUS.
http://gothamist.com/2014/10/23/cops_will_soon_have_email_addresses.php
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Friday, 24 October 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
FUCK DEBLASIO AND BRATTON
Murders reached a historic low in NYC for 2014; overall crime was down across the board by nearly 5%; hell, even the holiday slowdown didn't really lead to any additional crime. So clearly, now is the time when NYC really needs to implement a new anti-terrorism program which would empower a team of NYPD officers to roam around the city carrying machine guns. What could go wrong?
Police Commissioner Bratton made the announcement earlier today at an event hosted by the Police Foundation at the Mandarin Oriental. He said that the new 350 cop unit, called The Strategic Response Group, will be dedicated to "disorder control and counterterrorism protection capabilities" against attacks like the hostage situation in Sydney, which the NYPD's Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence John Miller said was an inevitability in NYC.
http://gothamist.com/2015/01/29/nypd_machine_guns.php
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's a sickness that's particularly contagious among politicians
the irony is that because he's a liberal who has decided he needs to bolster his "law and order" credentials, de blasio could do more harm than might otherwise occur
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 30 January 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link
a Clintonite to the bone after all?
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 08:21 (nine years ago) link
i don't think it's that simple. i think he's flailing.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 30 January 2015 08:26 (nine years ago) link
This quote is absolutely stunning in its brazenness:
"It is designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris," Bratton said, according to CBS.
I just can't even contemplate the size of the worms that would have to be in one's brain to cause him to speak that sentence out loud in front of press.
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 30 January 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
as soon as Bratton was appointed, I felt justified in having voted Green for mayor in the general election after a lesser-evil vote for deBlasio in the primary.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
am, BdB managed Hillary Rodham's first senatorial campaign, and worked for Bubba at HUD.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
i didn't realize that. that's disappointing. shows what i know.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 30 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
this is the kind of (unintentionally?) revealing comment that should get a policeman fired. but that wouldn't happen.
more and more i think that they should just fire the whole lot of them. although you'd have to be wilfully naive to think that american society w/o cops would somehow revert to something more just and fair.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 30 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
CLARIFICATION
With Bratton out sick Friday, the new explanation of the unit’s role was left to Chief of Department James O’Neill, who spoke to reporters after an NYPD promotions ceremony.
“They will not be involved in handling protests and demonstrations,” O’Neill said of the Strategic Response Group, set to debut in six months. “They’ll have no role in protests. Their response is single-fold. They’ll be doing counterterror work. They’ll be assigned to different posts throughout the city.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/separate-nypd-unit-handle-large-scale-protests-article-1.2098051
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
here he goes again! i wonder if this will become a 'misspeak'
If the state legislators asked Bratton about this, it's possible that they're at least considering changing New York law to make it a felony to resist arrest. This could spell disaster for New Yorkers, for one big reason: resisting arrest charges are used mostly by a small share of cops, many of whom are among the most abusive.
Bratton told the State Senate (according to Buzzfeed) that "if you don't want us to enforce something, don't make it a law." But that's the opposite of how resisting-arrest cases actually work. Most cops don't bring in many, or any, people for resisting arrest. But a few cops bring in a lot.
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/4/7979351/bratton-resisting-arrest
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Mayor de Blasio now safely in the cops' pocket, and hypersensitive about it like most worthless ex-radicals.
“When police give instruction, you follow the instruction,” Mr. de Blasio said at a City Hall press conference today. “We won’t tolerate illegality; we won’t tolerate disorder.”
...Mr. de Blasio said the overall strategy of the police in New York City had not changed—there was simply “flexibility” they took in certain situations, like when dozens of marchers poured into the streets around Union Square after being told not to enter the roadways....
While Mr. de Blasio insisted that New Yorkers protesting needed to obey the NYPD’s orders, he argued his own arrest during a 2013 protest of plans to close a Brooklyn hospital was an entirely different matter.
“I’m astounded at that question,” Mr. de Blasio told the Wall Street Journal’s Michael Howard Saul. “I would think you knew a little bit more about the history of nonviolent civil protests. The civil rights movement, maybe you’ve heard of it?”
http://observer.com/2015/04/an-aggravated-bill-de-blasio-tells-protesters-to-start-listening-to-cops/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 May 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
holy christ the irony in that last quote.
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 1 May 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
wow that's ridiculous
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 May 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
“When police give instruction, you follow the instruction,”
http://media.al.com/news_impact/photo/selmapromojpg-1063aea5bd691766.jpg
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Friday, 1 May 2015 20:46 (eight years ago) link
i think this asshole captain deserves everything about to be thrown at him
"Every rape should be investigated. I wish we could do more," Captain Peter Rose, head of the 94th Precinct, told DNAinfo New York.
"It really becomes a balancing act for the investigators.
"Some of them were Tinder, some of them were hookup sites, some of theme were actually coworkers. It's not a trend that we're too worried about because out of 13 [sex attacks], only two were true stranger rapes.
"They're not total abomination rapes where strangers are being dragged off the streets," Rose later said at a Community Council meeting Wednesday night.
"If there's a true stranger rape, a random guy picks up a stranger off the street, those are the troubling ones. That person has, like, no moral standards."
His comments raised concerns with Jane Manning of the National Organization for Women.
"The idea that 'this isn't some guy who's dangerous to women,' that in itself is a major window into the mentality that we are up against," she said.
"If you have the commander of a precinct making comments like that, he’s setting a tone for all the officers of a unit about how seriously to take acquaintance rape cases.
"When I hear the phrase we didn't have a cooperating victim, my antenna always goes up. If you hear 'I can't get the victim to cooperate' in case after case, you should be asking yourself what are they failing to do?"
Nationally, only about 14 percent of rapes are stranger rapes, according to a 2012 report from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170106/greenpoint/rapes-nypd-arrest
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 January 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
The NYPD’s police union is so mad Pantaleo was fired that they’re threatening to stop arresting thousands of people for minor offenses. Last time they did this NYC became measurably safer and “pro-active policing” was exposed as a huge waste of resources. https://t.co/5ysGPpg9KU https://t.co/kTzEvE1LVp— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) August 25, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 August 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Mr Di Blasio if you were elected president would that entitle people to throw water on all the police in America.— Charlie Daniels (@CharlieDaniels) September 8, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 September 2019 11:53 (four years ago) link
"Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.” — Former Chicago mayor Richard Daley https://t.co/TgTY0QYUgH— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 30, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 May 2020 18:47 (three years ago) link
The Mayor of New York City just lied to 8 million New Yorkers. pic.twitter.com/4tnJCWyZ51— rafael shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) May 31, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
NEW: Never-released report shows number of people killed by police activity in New York City is more than double what was reported. https://t.co/bYFwMYWM0N— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) June 19, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 June 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
NYPD are retiring in record numbers because the way retirement benefits are calculated means that the OT from protest duty is giving them a bonus for the rest of their lives. The same thing happened after 9/11. https://t.co/vh8pXco0H0— John A McCloskey (@JohnAMcCloskey) June 27, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
fuck em btw
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 June 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
very cool of the pigs to pepper spray ppl at a pride rally for no reason while trying to roll through the crowd on their toddler bikes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 28 June 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
oh, this
Pepper spray, including of a cop, another falls off a motorcycle, other cops pushing.... at splitter Pride march. pic.twitter.com/kauOXsAwbG— Matthew Chayes (@chayesmatthew) June 28, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 June 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
NEW: @nytimes sought and verified videos of police use of force at protests in NYC. Here is what we found.See for yourself. https://t.co/t1sEgUocDN— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) July 15, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link