NYPD Partners With Israeli Firm To Monitor Phone Use While Driving

Privacy activists say this technology goes too far, and have pointed out that police already have the power to retroactively check if a person was using their cell phone in case of an accident.

John Vibes
By John Vibes
A police officer looks at the computer in his cruiser while working on a swing shift in downtown Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)

Police in the “Empire State” of New York have reportedly proposed the implementation of a new device that would be able to detect when drivers are using their cell phones. The device has become known as the “textalyzer,” and although it will not be ready for several months, New York drivers can likely expect to have their cell phone usage monitored

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NYPD Faces Suit Over Surveillance Of Black Lives Matter Activists

The NYPD has a long and sordid history of dragnet surveillance of citizens, whether it involved targeting them for their political or religious beliefs.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A NYPD officer records Occupy protestors (Photo by Palinopsia Films)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The New York chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and activists with Millions March NYC sued the New York Police Department after the department refused to confirm or deny the existence of records on Black Lives Matter activists. Mariko Hirose, a senior staff attorney for the New York

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NY Man Wins $4.5 Million Settlement After Being Wrongly Convicted By Dishonest Prosecution

The award of $4.5 million by New York state is just part of a claim by a man who spent more than two decades in prison based on a dishonest prosecution.

Joaquin Sapien
By Joaquin Sapien
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)

Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers. Quezada spent 24 years in prison for murder before winning his freedom in 2015 when, after decades of failed appeals, the Brooklyn district attorney's office conceded that

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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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CIA To Spill The Beans On Top-Secret Cold War Spy Ops

Curiously, in an effort to justify the slow progress of the release, the report blames Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News

Langley, Virginia – Throughout the Cold War, the CIA was involved in a wide range of covert operations. Details of four of those top-secret assignments will soon be released. According to a new report by the Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation to the [US] Department of State (HAC), the department has two primary

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NYPD Chief Bill Bratton: ‘Minority Report’ Is Modern Fact, Not Fiction

The ‘Minority Report’ of 2002 is the reality of today.”

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola

Originally published at Shadowproof. In Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report,” the authoritarian system in place to predict crime and catch individuals before they commit crimes is dystopian fantasy. In the mind of New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton, this story is part of today’s reality, one the NYPD is fueling through

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