Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Police Misconduct

Badda Bing! NYPD “Taking Care of” New Parking Placards

By Jason Varone | Jan 30, 2008 | 11 Comments

A commenter on Uncivilservants.org noticed that Mayor Bloomberg’s attempt to reign in parking permit abuse is already being met with some good old-fashioned NYPD blowback: Posted on Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 10:49 PM Found on the Rant: "The new placards are slowly circulating to individual mos and all that has changed is the addition […]

Kitty Justice: The Thai Solution for Police Parking Placard Abuse

By Aaron Naparstek | Jan 3, 2008 | 3 Comments

Top brass at the NYPD usually (but not always) cast a blind eye toward police officers who show disregard for the city’s parking regulations. It’s a sharp contrast to the NYPD’s "broken windows" school of policing, which promotes aggressive enforcement against minor scofflaws (like my friend Katie who recently spent a night in the box […]

For Victim’s Family, a $10 Fee and an Agonizing Wait

By Brad Aaron | Nov 29, 2007 | No Comments

In the weeks since their daughter lost her life on a Lower Manhattan street, Hope Miller’s parents have learned to be patient. On September 25, Miller was on her way to acting class when she was hit by a truck at the corner of Houston Street and Sixth Avenue. According to reports, Roger Smiley, 48, […]

NYPD Emerges as New Focus for NYC’s Livable Streets Movement

By Aaron Naparstek | Nov 27, 2007 | 38 Comments

Arrest Her! T.A. membership coordinator Abby King tears up the streets on a "sport utility bicycle." With their rampant illegal parking, refusal to enforce basic traffic laws and unwillingness to treat pedestrian injuries and fatalities with any level of seriousness, the Police Department is establishing itself as the New York City government agency most in […]

Riding While Black or Just Riding?

By Sarah Goodyear | Nov 8, 2007 | 5 Comments

From Robert Jones’s blog This Is the Diaspora comes a disturbing tale (well worth reading in full) of how a beautiful bike ride on a sparkling fall day turned into a humiliating encounter with the police — all because Jones detoured onto the sidewalk of Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn for a few seconds to […]

Officer Convicted in Beating Was Handing Off Parking Placard

By Brad Aaron | Aug 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

From the New York Times, via an eagle-eyed Streetsblog tipster: A police captain who admitted having a forbidden affair with an officer under his command was convicted yesterday of brutally beating her on a Greenwich Village street. The jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan found the captain, Alberto Sanchez, guilty of third-degree assault, a […]

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