Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Ray Kelly

Harlem NYPD Chase Ends in Another Pedestrian Death

By Brad Aaron | Jun 22, 2010 | 35 Comments

Photo: 1010 WINS An elderly woman was killed and at least two other bystanders were injured when suspects fleeing police slammed into another vehicle in Harlem this morning. According to reports from City Room, 1010 WINS and WCBS, officers had pulled over a minivan at Lenox Avenue and W. 141st Street in connection with a […]

Waiting for Raymond: Deadly Driving Too Common for NYPD to Bother With

By Brad Aaron | Apr 27, 2010 | 8 Comments

Pedestrians have a slim chance of living through a collision with a driver traveling 10 mph above the city speed limit — which still doesn’t meet at least one cop’s threshold for issuing a ticket. The Post ran a damning article last weekend on reckless yellow cab drivers. Armed with a radar gun, a reporter […]

NYPD Kisses the Blarney Stone After Ray Kelly Saves the Day

By Brad Aaron | Mar 19, 2010 | 14 Comments

Photo: Daily News We couldn’t help notice that, while police information czar Paul Browne was seemingly chatting up every media outlet in town about his boss coming to the aid of a fallen pedestrian this week, we were adding two letters to our stack of NYPD freedom of information rejections. As we announced last week, […]

Waiting for Raymond: How Many NYPD DWI Disasters Is Too Many?

By Brad Aaron | Mar 4, 2010 | 2 Comments

Over an 11-day span in February, three off-duty NYPD officers were arrested for driving under the influence. One was nabbed as he sat behind the wheel of a double-parked car in Harlem. The other two were involved in serious crashes, one of which ended with the officer’s car overturned on a Midtown Manhattan sidewalk. It’s […]

Waiting for Raymond: LAPD Chief Leapfrogs Kelly on Cyclist Outreach

By Brad Aaron | Mar 1, 2010 | No Comments

Photo: Newsday Since taking office late last year, the new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Charlie Beck, has taken several steps toward making conditions more tolerable for local cyclists. The most notable to this point is probably the formation of a cycling task force to address issues including traffic laws and bike theft. […]

NYPD Denies Role in Another Pedestrian Death. Kelly, Bloomberg Silent

By Brad Aaron | Feb 1, 2010 | 16 Comments

In what has become an all-too-familiar scene, NYPD is denying reports that a police chase led to the death of a pedestrian after an incident of petty theft on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Karen Schmeer. Photo via NYT Karen Schmeer, 39, was an acclaimed film editor known for her work with documentarian Errol Morris. At […]

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