Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD

Op-Ed: It’s Time to Legalize Public Drinking for All New Yorkers

By Shabazz Stuart | Jun 28, 2020 | No Comments

Those with fair skin in affluent ZIP codes will continue to drink with their friends in the streets, while minorities will be subject to arbitrary harassment and summonses for doing the same. This needs to stop.

Here's why you can't trust cops to do bike lane enforcement. File photo: Dan Miller

Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

An influential Manhattan panel voted to return street safety to the DOT. Will Mayor de Blasio heed the call?

A corner of Classon Playground in Brooklyn, which the NYPD is using as a parking lot. Police will vacate by the end of the week, supposedly. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Brooklyn Residents To Reclaim Playground From NYPD

By Eve Kessler | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

Cops are using the Classon Playground as a parking lot — supposedly to protect their vehicles from protesters. But now they will vacate, Parks says.

Friends, family, and neighbors of 4-year-old Luz Gonzalez marched to the 83rd Precinct two years ago demanding answers. Photo: Julianne Cuba

Two Years After a Hit-And-Run Driver Killed a 4-Year-Old, There Is Little ‘Justice for Luz’

By Julianne Cuba | Jun 24, 2020 | No Comments

Brooklyn's DA charges only 'failure to exercise due care' after a horrific incident on a Bushwick sidewalk. A heartbroken family demands answers.

A hit-and-run driver killed a man at the corner of Avenue N and E. 98th Street in Canarsie. Above, a downed stop sign and fire hydrant show the driver's path. Photo: Steven Vago

UPDATED: Brooklyn Man Killed in Early Morning Hit-and-Run

By Gersh Kuntzman and Steven Vago | Jun 23, 2020 | No Comments

A Brooklyn man was run down and killed by the driver of a massive Jeep early Tuesday morning, and the driver and his passenger ran away from the crash scene leaving their victim to die, cops said.

A Round and a Roundy: ‘Whose Streets? Cops’ Streets!’

By Streetsblog | Jun 22, 2020 | No Comments

Our editorial cartoonist weighs in on how the NYPD has stolen public space.

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