Nearly five years after Eric Garner’s death, the Staten Island cop who choked him as he gasped, “I can’t breathe” faces an NYPD administrative trial beginning Monday. But Garner’s friends say that little has changed on Bay Street since the deadly confrontation — and they doubt Officer Daniel Pantaleo will face any serious consequences. “Hell, […]
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The Bronx Is Waiting: Police Dispatch Times Highest in the City
Police took longer to assign officers to crimes reported in Bronx neighborhoods than anywhere else in New York City in 2018, according to the city Independent Budget Office’s analysis of precinct dispatch times. The average dispatch time across the city for roughly 450,000 possible crime-in-progress incidents in 2018 was 3 minutes, 48 seconds. That’s up […]
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Video Footage of Fatal Police Shooting Raises New Questions
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams viewed NYPD body camera footage of the fatal police shooting of a knife-wielding Bronx man in his apartment and came away with one big question: Why couldn’t cops “just close the door and regroup?” In an interview with THE CITY, Williams described the video showing the April 14 death of Kawaski […]
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Challenge to NYPD Use of Sealed Arrest Records Can Proceed, Judge Rules
The NYPD, in violation of a decades-old state law, has been routinely accessing sealed arrest records — even in cases where charges are dropped, a class-action lawsuit filed by the Bronx Defenders alleged last year. On Tuesday, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Alexander M. Tisch ruled that the case can move forward, spiking a motion to […]
Posted inEconomy
Food Delivery Workers Try to Shift E-Bike Fines to Bosses
The NYPD ignores its own rules when officers slap fines of up to $500 on workers who use illegal electric bikes to make food deliveries, a lawsuit charges. The Legal Aid Society, in a suit set to be filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, contends the bosses at the top of the food chain should […]
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Pols Demand Answers After Details of Kawaski Trawick Killing Revealed
Calling for “full transparency,” Public Advocate Jumaane Williams vowed Friday to seek the police body camera video that shows the fatal April 14 shooting of a Bronx man by a cop. “Transparency is a powerful tool, and it is clear to me that we need full transparency regarding this incident,” Williams said in a statement […]
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How a Bronx Man was Killed by Police After Dueling 911 Calls
On the night of April 14, Kawaski Trawick, 32, got locked out of his apartment in a building run by a nonprofit in The Bronx. He had food cooking on the stove, according to the Fire Department. There were dueling 911 calls: a distraught Trawick reporting his fears of a fire – and the building […]
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VOTING CHANGE: City Elections Could Become a Ranking Game of Thrones
Forget about one-candidate, one-vote: New Yorkers would get to rank contenders in order of preference on their ballots, under a proposed election overhaul. The Charter Revision Commission’s preliminary staff report — obtained by THE CITY — eyes bringing so-called Ranked Choice Voting to town. Among the goals: to end costly primary runoffs in major elections […]
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The NYPD’s Mental Illness Response Breakdown
Additional reporting by Ese Olumhense Calls to 911 reporting what the NYPD terms EDPs — “emotionally disturbed persons” — have nearly doubled over the last decade, rising every year and in every precinct. In the last three years alone, 14 mentally ill people have died at the hands of police, spurring calls for — and […]
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20 Years After the NYPD Killing of Amadou Diallo, His Mom Asks: What’s Changed?
Kadiatou Diallo often wonders what her son Amadou’s life would be like if he were still alive. What if he had gone inside his apartment just a few moments before four NYPD officers drove down the Bronx’s Wheeler Avenue shortly after midnight on February 4, 1999? Or what if he had been anywhere else, doing […]