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Group Organizing To Disarm And Displace NYPD

March 27, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org , , ,
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 , , ,
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 , , ,
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 , , ,
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 , , ,
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 , ,
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 , , ,
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 , ,
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 , , , , ,
“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 , , ,
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.

Protestors: De Blasio Neglected NYPD Issues In State Of City Speech

February 6, 2015 Ross Barkan, www.observer.com , , ,
They called it a “glaring omission,” an insult to who they are and what they do. Anti-police brutality activists blasted Mayor Bill de Blasio this afternoon for neglecting yesterday to mention race and policing issues in his annual State of the City address. Mr. de Blasio, straining to balance the demands of protesters with unrest in the NYPD, ignored the issue entirely in favor of ambitious affordable housing and transportationproposals. “Yesterday there was a glaring omission–we thought this mayor was committed to this issue. He ran on this issue, in the first few months he dealt with the issue, and now it seems he’s gone silent,” said Michael Skolnik, an activist with the protest group Justice League NYC.

Bratton Wants Resisting Arrest To Be A Felony

February 6, 2015 The Law, www.animalnewyork.com , ,
The NYPD does not want an apology. It has, instead, set its sights on a much bigger concession. A prize that gives the NYPD what it loves best: totalitarian power and felony arrest statistics. The nation’s largest police force now wants the mayor and our representatives in Albany to get down on their knees, beg forgiveness, and force the populace to learn to respect the boys in blue. Theinsanity and pure chutzpah of demanding that the crime of resisting arrest become a felony (a felony!) is the perfect example of an organization completely out of touch with reality and the rule of law. The language used in every complaint in the five boroughs goes something like this: the defendant resisted arrest in that the defendant flailed their arms and refused to be handcuffed.

Protesters At SCOTUS Over Garner Grand Jury Records

February 6, 2015 Eddie D'Anna, www.silive.com , ,
A group of protesters have gathered outside state Supreme Court in St. George, where oral arguments are scheduled Thursday on petitions to release the Eric Garner grand jury records. The protesters -- about two dozen in number as of 9:30 -- are chanting "I can't breathe," and holding signs calling for the record to be made public. The New York Civil Liberties Union, the Legal Aid Society, Public Advocate Letitia James, the New York Post, and the Staten Island branch and the state conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People have asked the court to release more information about the case, including the grand jury transcripts, evidence presented, and instructions given to the grand jury.

Bratton-de Blasio Back Off Machine Guns, Create Protest Task Force

February 4, 2015 Rocco Parascandola, www.nydailynews.com , ,
On Monday NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced a new heavily armed, machine gun carrying special force that would be used to fight civil disturbances and protests as part of an anti-terrorism unit. The article below reports they have backed off from the machine guns, no doubt because there was a lot of protest, but are still planning a new task force to respond to protests. According to the NYPD the task force will “handle the demonstrations and protests... respond to any sort of civil disorder. They'll also be able to respond to citywide mobilizations.” The announcement of the task forces was vague in how they would handle protests and what their special training would involve. Mayor di Blasio and Commissioner Bratton need to be forthright about the tactics they will be using. What kind of special training will this special task force have? How will they be armed? What role will infiltrators and disruptors play? Will police instigate violence and property damage? How will they protect the constitutional rights of protesters? The terrible record of the NYPD demands transparency. Take action to demand transparency and that your constitutional rights be protected...

20 Years Ago NYPD Officer Jailed For Chokehold, Why Not Now

February 3, 2015 Christopher Mathias, www.huffingtonpost.com , , ,
The similarities are striking. Both Anthony Baez and Eric Garner, in their final moments, were put into chokeholds by officers from the New York City Police Department. Both of the cops involved were white, while Baez and Garner were minorities and unarmed. Both men’s deaths set off protests across the city, their names added to a long list of black and Latino men who have died in altercations with police. But Francis Livoti, the officer who killed Baez, ultimately spent seven years in a federal prison. In December, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garner’s death. That grand jury decision precipitated several tense weeks in New York. Protesters -- organizing around the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter -- routinely took to the streets.
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