MetaFilter posts tagged with Police and NYPD

“It wasn’t your time.”

zarq — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:17:20 -0800

The Jumper Squad. "Each year, the New York City Police Department receives hundreds of 911 calls for so-called jumper jobs, or reports of people on bridges and rooftops threatening to jump. The department’s Emergency Service Unit responds to those calls. Roughly 300 officers in the unit are specially trained in suicide rescue, the delicate art of saving people from themselves; they know just what to say and, perhaps more important, what not to say."

NYPD Tapes Confirmed

The Deej — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:42:34 -0800

The NYPD Tapes Confirmed The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy.

Covered in 2010 by This American Life as Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me? For 17 months, New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft recorded himself and his fellow officers on the job, including their supervisors ordering them to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do.

"Furtive Movements"

hermitosis — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:44:34 -0800

Young, black, and frisked by the NYPD: a grim rite of passage for the city's black and Latino youths.

Quis custodiet ipsos custOWWW DON'T TAZE ME BRO

FatherDagon — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:07:51 -0800

A shockingly frank appraisal from MSNBC of the unprovoked police attacks at the recent 'Occupy Wall Street' protest actions. At least one of the participating officers is the subject of an ongoing investigation regarding prior police brutality actions during the 2004 RNC protests, which also involved the unwarranted mass arrests by way of kettling.

"Apparently you can't hack into a government supercomputer and then try to buy uranium without the Department of Homeland Security tattling to your mother."

zarq — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:30:51 -0800

TV Fact Checkers "Behind every smart TV show, there is a tireless script coordinator, technical adviser, researcher or producer who makes sure the jargon is right, the science is accurate and the pop culture references are on-point." This week, Wired "is speaking with fact-checkers behind the fall TV season’s geekiest shows." 3 profiles have been posted so far: * Physicist David Saltzberg: Dropping Science on The Big Bang Theory. Dr. Saltzberg blogs at "The Big Blog Theory" (previously included in this excellent MeFi post.) Here's another, older interview. * Greg Levine: Getting Civic Duties Right on Parks and Recreation * Jim Nuciforo: Ex-NYPD Cop Brings Realism to Unforgettable

Walking While Black

whimsicalnymph — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:54:15 -0800

Walking While Black is still more of a problem to the NYPD than Biking While White. [SLYT] This recent incident, caught on video, demonstrates in real time the ways that law enforcement frequently ignores enforcing the law in favor of teaching a lesson to the law-abiding smart aleck. Of interest to me in the first link is when a woman (at 5:19) tells the other young man to go away so that he doesn't get hauled in either. Ten years ago, Brian Bain brought racial profiling by the NYPD to the forefront of the nation's attention. The NYPD has frequently been criticized for specifically targeting minorities on the streets of New York. A more recent study by the Center for Constitutional Rights indicates that stop-and-frisks in the subway stations of New York are based more on race than crime. Incarceration rates are still going up. Police violence and profiling of minorities is so prevalent that black culture magazines even give advice on how to protect yourself from police brutality. (Related MeFi post on incarceration rates by race in the U.S.).

If the wrong person sees this stuff coming in here, then IAB is going to be all over this place, all right?

anotherpanacea — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:45:43 -0800

Two years ago, Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, an officer in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct, became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors. Initially he carried the recorder to protect himself from the civilian complaints that can result from street encounters. But then he began to document things happening in the precinct that bothered him. After he ran afoul of precinct politics, he recorded what he viewed as retaliation by his bosses. The Village Voice is releasing portions of the tapes in batches and is also publishing several stories to deal with the issues that the recordings present.

In this week's installment, the Voice looks at the roll calls at the Bed-Stuy precinct and the conflicting instructions given to street cops, who must look busy at all times, while actually suppressing crime reports.

Beware of Internet Overshares

ericb — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:21:41 -0800

"Meet Officer Vaughan Ettienne, the bodybuilder who learned the hard way you shouldn't write like a thug online, or a jury might just suspect you of mistreating a suspect." Ettienne arrested Gary Waters for gun possession. At trial "the defense found things Ettienne said online and turned them against him." "Mr. Waters, on parole from a burglary conviction when he was arrested, beat the most serious charge, the felony possession of a 9 millimeter Beretta and a bagful of ammunition. He was convicted of resisting arrest, a misdemeanor."