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Court Of Appeals Keeps Eric Garner Grand Jury Secret

August 3, 2015 Edward McAllister, www.reuters.com Resist! Criminal Justice, Eric Garner, Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

By Edward McAllister in Reuters - A New York state court on Wednesday declined to release details of a grand jury investigation that led to a police officer being cleared of wrongdoing in the death of Eric Garner after his chokehold arrest in Staten Island in July last year. Lawyers for civil rights groups and New York's public advocate office in June called for the release of the grand jury minutes including transcripts of testimony, exhibits and details of certain grand jurors to better understand the decision not to charge officer Daniel Pantaleo for Garner's death. Garner was black and Pantaleo is white, and the case caused widespread protests last year. The lawyers did not establish a compelling reason for disclosure of the minutes, the appellate division of New York State's Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

Eric Garner Family Reaches Settlement Of $5.9 Million

July 13, 2015 Kelly McLaughlin, www.dailymail.co.uk Educate! Criminal Justice, Eric Garner, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

By Kelly McLaughlin in The Daily Mail - As the family of Eric Garner awaits closure a year after the father-of-six's untimely death, the police officer who put the 43-year-old in a fatal chokehold said that he can't wait to get back on the job. Though he's been stripped of his gun and is receiving death threats, 30-year-old Daniel Pantaleo wants to keep working for the New York City police, his lawyer said. 'The unbelievable part is this has not soured him one bit on doing law enforcement,' his lawyer Stuart London told the New York Daily News. 'It hasn't diminished his desire to help the citizens of this city.' Garner's widow, however, is enraged that there is even a possibility Pantaleo could get his job back.

The Fight Over Eric Garner Grand Jury Records Continues

June 17, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Eric Garner, Law, NYPD, police brutality

By Christopher Mathias in Huffington Post - Nearly a year after Eric Garner died at the hands of police, an appeals court Tuesday heard oral arguments over whether to unseal records from the grand jury investigation into his death. A panel of four justices with the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court grilled lawyers from three civil rights groups, as well as a lawyer from the office of New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, over why there might be a “compelling and particularized” need to release the records. Despite video evidence showing New York Police officer Daniel Pantaleo putting Garner into a prohibited chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes in Staten Island last July, a grand jury in December declined to indict Pantaleo.

NYPD Considers Amnesty For 1.2 Million, Arrested Too Many

May 26, 2015 Jackson Marciana, www.countercurrentnews.com Educate! Marijuana, Mass Incarceration, NYPD, Police the Police, Racial Justice

The New York Police Department is being forced to acknowledge they have arrested far too many people for victimless crimes. Now, the department admits they will have to do something about it. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has publicly accepted the fact that “millions” have been convicted of crimes that they should never have been jailed for. The new controversial proposal suggests the City of New York grant amnesty to over 1 million citizens who have open warrants for low-level, clearly victimless offenses. The prison industry warns that this will “cause crime to skyrocket,” but what they seem more worried about is the bottom line for their for-profit, tax-payer-funded prison schemes.

NYPD Is Slowing Down With Stop-And-Frisks

March 28, 2015 Prachi Gupta, www.animalnewyork.com Educate! Mass Incarceration, NYPD, police brutality, Police the Police

While he predicts that the number of cops on the streets of New York is going to increase this year, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says that the number of stop-and-frisks are going to decline. Bratton told the New York Daily News that the NYPD will have one million fewer interactions with the public “based primarily on dramatic drops in stop-and-frisks, summonses and marijuana busts.” The drop in activity has not led to a spike in crime; in fact, the city currently faces a 10% drop in crime. Bratton hopes that the move will improve relations with communities of color, who are disproportionately targeted by stop-and-frisk.

Group Organizing To Disarm And Displace NYPD

March 27, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Police the Police

A newly-formed group of activists are teaming up with Copwatch, an anti-police brutality group that records video of police conduct in their communities, to create “no-cop zones,” and maybe even disarm the police, through the use of direct action. “Disarm NYPD” is a new collective seeking to immediately stop the New York Police Department from killing anyone ever again. The group seeks to monitor and pressure police, with the help of local communities and Copwatch groups, until they retreat from over-policed neighborhoods and then maintain these cop-free zones with alternative, community-based forms of conflict resolution. Along with that, the group also seeks the total disarmament of the police.

Court Decides To Keep Eric Garner Grand Jury Secret

March 21, 2015 NYCLU, www.nyclu.org Educate! Eric Garner, Law, NYPD, Transparency

In response to a Staten Island judge’s decision to keep secret records from the Grand Jury which failed to indict an NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner, the New York Civil Liberties Union issued the following statement. The NYCLU in December petitioned the court to release to the public the Grand Jury’s transcript, as well as the evidence presented and instructions the jury was given. Judge William E. Garnett rejected requests from the NYCLU, the Legal Aid Society, the public advocate’s office, The New York Post and the NAACP .

Bratton Wants 350 More NYPD To Fight ISIS Threat

March 16, 2015 CBS, www.newyork.cbslocal.com Resist! Government, New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality

Protesters made a scene inside the City Council chamber on Thursday, voicing their displeasure with NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton’s request for money to hire more officers. On the very day that the Bratton finally admitted he needs more cops, a small group of dissidents hid themselves around the chamber to systematically interrupt him and shout him down, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported. It started small, with one woman screaming “It’s a lie!” in the direction of Commissioner Bratton as he started testifying about the NYPD budget. Then about half a dozen individual protesters stood up, one at a time, to attack the NYPD’s so-called “broken window” policy of arresting people for low-level crimes.

NYPD Editing Wikipedia Entries On Their Police Brutality

March 14, 2015 Kelly Weill, www.capitalnewyork.com Educate! Information, NYPD, police brutality, Surveillance

Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. “The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital after examples of the changes were presented to the NYPD. The edits and changes were linked to the NYPD through a series of Internet Protocol addresses, or IP addresses, which can be publicly tracked by various websites. (Here, for example, is one website that shows a number of IP addresses registered to the NYPD.) IP addresses can locate where a computer is when it connects to the Internet.

Lawsuit Seeks Disciplinary History Of Eric Garner Killer

February 27, 2015 Barbara Ross and Dareh Gregorian, www.nydailynews.com Resist! Eric Garner, Law, NYPD, police brutality

The Civilian Complaint Review Board should reveal the disciplinary history of the police officer who put Eric Garner in an apparent chokehold, court papers say. The Legal Aid Society has filed suit to force the CCRB to turn over information it might have about Daniel Pantaleo, the officer whose takedown of Garner led to his death on Staten Island last year. “Our city needs to know if the systems of police oversight failed to prevent Garner's death by failing to deter an officer with a history of excessive force,” the Manhattan Supeme Court suit says. The CCRB has denied the Legal Aid Society’s requests for the info, saying it’s prevented from doing so for legal and privacy reasons.

Police Reform Activists Oppose Proposal To Hire 1,000 NYPD Cops

February 27, 2015 Erin Durkin, www.nydailynews.com Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), NYPD

Police reform activists slammed on Thursday a push by the City Council and Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito to add 1,000 new cops to the NYPD. Mark-Viverito has made a headcount hike a top priority and plans to include it in the Council’s budget proposal, though it was left out of Mayor de Blasio’s latest plan. “We don’t think that the largest police force in the country needs another thousand cops,” said Monica Novoa of the Coalition to End Broken Windows, among groups that rallied outside City Hall Thursday. “We don’t need more officers implementing broken windows policing.” She said she was puzzled to see Mark-Viverito, a leading progressive, pushing the $90 million a year plan.

Bratton: Police Responsible For Abuses Against African Americans

February 25, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for "many of the worst parts of black history" in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city's racial tensions. Bratton gave a speech Tuesday morning to a predominantly African-American crowd during a Black History Month breakfast at the Greater Allen AME Church in Queens. “Slavery, our country’s original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers,” Bratton said. The commissioner pointed out that the first thing Dutch colonist Peter Stuyvesant did upon arriving in what was then New Amsterdam was set up a police force to prop up a system of slavery. “Since then, the stories of police and black citizens have intertwined again and again,” Bratton said. "The unequal nature of that relationship cannot and must not be denied.”

Cameras Monitoring NYPD Precincts Don’t Work

February 18, 2015 Prachi Gupta, www.animalnewyork.com Educate! NYPD, police brutality, Technology

For an organization that has been so adamant on increasing its public surveillance, it is surprising and troubling that several NYPD precincts don’t have working security cameras. A new report by DNA info claims that “cameras outside police precinct station houses” are “not working in a number of cases, according to an NYPD source.” According to the source, the reason many precincts keep cameras off is to “protect the identity of victims who are coming and going from the building” and in its place, many precincts have officers patrolling the exterior of the building. Nelson’s case, however, has brought the issue to the attention of city Councilwoman Vanessa L. Gibson, who oversees the Committee on Public Safety. “The tragic death of Laquan Nelson has illuminated a blind spot in the safety of all cops and civilians coming in and out of these buildings,” she said, adding, “I would support the addition of security cameras to entrances of NYPD precincts as I believe they would protect both police officers and civilians alike.”

Activists RespondTo NYPD Attempts To Thwart #BlackLivesMatter

February 15, 2015 Peter Rugh, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Freedom of Speech and Assembly, NYPD, Police abuse, Racism

“We understand now that we have mass power,” said Jordan, who pointed to the indictment Tuesday of Officer Peter Liang for the November shooting death of Akui Gurley in a Brooklyn housing development as an example of what Black Lives Matter has been able to accomplish since its inception. Even the NYPD’s recent promotional efforts for the film “Selma” are a testament to the power of the movement, she said. “They have to show they are not the bad guys, because they pretty much look like the bad guys.” Still, going forward, Jordan and others are proceeding with caution. “It is really important that we understand our strength is in numbers, that our narrative and our actions are very clear so that we cannot be misconstrued,” said Jordan. “We’re training people really heavily in militant nonviolent action and de-escalation. They are waiting for any opportunity to vilify us. But you can expect to see a stronger, more coordinated movement going forward. It’s about maximizing and taking control of the energy we have shown in the streets.”

Broken Windows Cracks But Police State Grows

February 12, 2015 Josmar Trujillo, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! New York City (NYC), NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

In the span of just over a week, two prominent proponents of Broken Windows theory, the policing strategy that cracks down on low-level infractions, backtracked on the role of the theory in lowering crime across New York city and suggested the theory was 'oversold'. Malcolm Gladwell, the influential author, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he, along with others, had 'oversold' Broken Windows over the years. Gladwell's 2000 book,The Tipping Point, strongly supported the premise that the NYPD's Broken Windows crackdowns were the primary cause for New York City's crime declines of the '90s.

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