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.

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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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New York Police Sergeant Fatally Shoots Unarmed Mentally-Ill Elderly Woman

The Bronx Borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., a former state lawmaker, called the shooting an “outrage.”

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In the latest incident of police killings of Black people in the U.S., a New York officer Tuesday evening shot and killed 66-year-old Deborah Danner, who was mentally ill, because she was waving a baseball bat at him to which he responded with deadly force instead of following protocol and firing his taser gun to neutralize her. Officers

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NYPD Cop Caught On Video In Gangstyle Beatdown

New York, NY — An NYPD officer has been suspended after video of a brutal street fight involving his friends made the rounds on social media. The off-duty cop not only failed to provide assistance to the victim but didn’t identify himself as law enforcement to responding officers. Although Officer Ronnie Velez received the suspension for […]

Claire Bernish
By Claire Bernish
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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF10YtX6ukw New York, NY — An NYPD officer has been suspended after video of a brutal street fight involving his friends made the rounds on social media. The off-duty cop not only failed to provide assistance to the victim but didn’t identify himself as law enforcement to responding officers. Although

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NYPD Commissioner Bratton Resigns, Takes Job With Pro-Clinton, Pro-Israel Firm

As he moves into his new position at Teneo Holdings, Bratton will go from enforcing ‘broken windows’ to rubbing elbows with those gathered at the nexus between law enforcement, the national security state, the military-industrial complex, and U.S.-U.K.-NATO foreign policy.

Eric Draitser
By Eric Draitser
Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton Speaks at The First National Personal Security Conference in Israel, 2014.

NEW YORK --- (Analysis) New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton formally announced his resignation on Tuesday, marking the end of a tumultuous second term as the NYPD’s top cop. Bratton, largely seen as the architect of the “broken windows” law enforcement strategy that targets low-level offenses in order to stop larger offenses, has been

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Protesters Demand An End To Police As They #ShutDownCityHallNYC

‘The only way that we can see an end to police violence is to abolish the police,’ an organizer told MintPress the morning after demonstrators occupied public spaces in lower Manhattan.

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By Joe Catron
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NEW YORK --- On Monday, over a dozen black and solidarity groups launched an ongoing occupation of New York’s City Hall Park and other public areas in lower Manhattan. “The only way that we can see an end to police violence is to abolish the police,” Nabil Hassein, an organizer with Millions March NYC, which announced the demonstration and

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NYPD Brags About Tax-Payer Funded Shopping Spree

“We will not be the police department that brings a knife to the gunfight,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio in a press conference.

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New York Police Department

The New York City Police Department has acquired US$7 million in military-style protective equipment for patrol officers in response to recent shooting attacks on police in Baton Rouge and Dallas, officials said Monday. "You name it, we're buying it," Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference. "There's not a police department in

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