Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Police Misconduct

Into Our Town the NYPD Came…

By Aaron Naparstek | Jul 28, 2006 | 14 Comments

Your federal Homeland Security dollars hard at work (Photo: Untitledname from Flickr) Apologies to Maurice Ogden but I guess I didn’t think enough of it when the NYPD was only cracking down on Critical Mass riders. Now it looks like the harassment has spread to regular daily bike commuters and is the product of official city policy. Here are four reports we’ve […]

Patriots Park on Sidewalks

By Aaron Naparstek | Apr 11, 2006 | 2 Comments

Oil Drum points to a recent spike in motorist insanity on Staten Island this week: A retired Port Authority cop out with his wife, pulls in to a strip mall to pick up some Chinese food. An ex-NYPD detective jumps out of his car and guns the guy down in a barrage of 17 bullets. […]