In NYC When Cops Backed Off, Crime Did Too

The choice to invest in punitive systems instead of stabilizing and nourishing ones does not make our communities safer. A living wage, access to holistic health services and treatment, educational opportunity, and stable housing are more successful in reducing crime than more police or prisons.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
New York City police officers detain and question a man,, July 11, 2017, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

NEW YORK – A couple of weeks ago ProPublica noted that 2017’s murder rate in New York City was down to 291, the lowest since the 1950s. That number is noteworthy in and of itself, but also because of the context in which it occurred: the number of “stops” and “frisks” employed by the NYPD. About 10,000 people were stopped and frisked -- checked for

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New York To Pay Out $56.5 Million Over Bogus NYPD tickets

The settlement came following a rash of tickets given out to fulfill the NYPD’s alleged quota system.

Nathan Tempey | Gothamist
By Nathan Tempey | Gothamist
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly poses for photographers next to the new police cruiser, a 2006 Dodge Charger, on display at New York City Police Department's headquarters in New York, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(REPORT) --- New York City has agreed to pay out as much as $75 million in taxpayer money to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit regarding hundreds of thousands of bogus summonses that lawyers alleged were the product of the NYPD's quota system. The proposed settlement hit the Manhattan federal court docket this afternoon and still needs

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Titanpointe: The NSA’s Spy Hub In New York, Hidden In Plain Sight

An investigation by The Intercept indicates mysterious New York City skyscraper is one of the most important NSA surveillance sites on U.S. soil — a covert monitoring hub that is used to tap into phone calls, faxes, and internet data

Ryan Gallagher
Henrik Moltke
By Ryan Gallagher
And Henrik Moltke
The AT&T Long Lines Building houses an international telephone exchange - but does it also contain something more? (Google Street View)

They called it Project X. It was an unusually audacious, highly sensitive assignment: to build a massive skyscraper, capable of withstanding an atomic blast, in the middle of New York City. It would have no windows, 29 floors with three basement levels, and enough food to last 1,500 people two weeks in the event of a catastrophe. But the

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Judge Orders NYPD To Release Records On X-ray Vans

The NYPD has a secretive program that uses unmarked vans with X-ray machines designed to detect bombs. ProPublica tried to find out more about it, but the NYPD refused to answer for three years.

Michael Grabell
By Michael Grabell
Democrats are calling for the NYPD to destroy its files it acquired from spying in Muslim neighborhoods. (Photo by Scott Davidson)

A state judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on a secretive program that uses unmarked vans equipped with X-ray machines to detect bombs. The ruling follows a nearly three-year legal battle by ProPublica, which had requested police reports, training materials, contracts and any health and safety tests on the

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VIDEO: Time Lapse Shows Massive Size Of New York Police Brutality March

This short time lapse video puts the massive nationwide protests into perspective.

Nick Bernabe
By Nick Bernabe

(TheAntiMedia) The whole country, and the world, stood up to police brutality and institutionalized racism today. This short time lapse video puts the protests into perspective. While the mainstream media may report hundreds or maybe a thousand, you need to know the truth. You watched the truth via live streaming video over the internet. You are

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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It

MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins

WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the global banking

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