May 9, 2022 12:15 pm
NYC Mayor Defends Decision To Handcuff and Strip Search Woman Selling Mangos on a Subway Platform
Maria Falcon doesn’t have a business license. So New York police officers detained her and confiscated all of her merchandise.
March 17, 2022 9:00 am
NYC Mayor Suggests Latest iPhone Is a Prerequisite for Civil Rights
Eric Adams says you may have to upgrade your phone if you want to record the police, because you’ll need to do so from a distance.
Tags: First Amendment, free speech, NYPD, REASON
February 24, 2022 11:06 am
Former NYPD Union President Charged With Stealing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Members’ Dues
Ed Mullins, known for combatively defending bad police behavior and the drug war, charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice.
February 11, 2022 9:45 am
NYC Mayor Adams Wants More Facial Recognition Software for Cops
Facial recognition software can secretly surveil and is subject to error.
February 3, 2022 11:02 am
Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did This Slain NYPD Officer.
Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing.
February 2, 2022 1:00 am
Brickbat: Tainted Testimony
Bronx Supreme Court Justice David Lewis tossed convictions against 133 defendants in cases in which former New York Police Department detective Joseph Franco testified. Franco has been indicted on 26 counts of felony perjury. Last year, the Brooklyn district attorney dismissed 93 other cases which relied on Franco’s testimony.
January 28, 2022 1:35 pm
WATCH: Thousands Of Officers Fill NYC Streets To Honor Slain 22-Year-Old Cop Jason Rivera
Law enforcement officers braved the snow to stand together in Rivera’s honor, filling Fifth Avenue in an awe-inspiring display.
Tags: FEDERALIST, NYPD
January 22, 2022 6:30 am
NYPD Arrest 9-year-old girl for not showing vax papers at museum
The child was 9-year-old Jayla who was arrested along with five adults for failing to show a vaccination card at New York’s Museum of Natural History
Tags: LIBERTY LOFT, NYPD
December 30, 2021 9:27 am
Only 3 NYPD Officers Have Been Disciplined for Misconduct During the George Floyd Protests
The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.
December 29, 2021 1:00 pm
Story Continues: Swarm of NYPD officers force a family with a young child out of restaurants for not showing vax papers
New York City is now becoming the epicenter of power-hungry authoritarian rules as they crackdown on vax mandates.
Tags: Government, Healthcare, LIBERTY LOFT, NYPD, Politics
December 29, 2021 6:00 am
Goodbye and Good Riddance to Bill de Blasio, a Terrible Mayor on Every Issue He Tripped Over
The best thing you could say about Bill de Blasio was that he was good for a laugh.
November 29, 2021 12:20 pm
Incoming New York Mayor Makes Vague Case for the ‘Proper’ Kind of Stop-and-Frisk
Eric Adams thinks he can give the police more power to hunt for guns without making innocent minority men the inevitable target.
Tags: Gun Control, guns, NYPD
November 11, 2021 1:00 am
Brickbat: Justice Delayed
In New York City, Judge Tamiko Amakar has overturned the 2018 conviction of Jason Serrano for resisting arrest after bodycam video showed one of the officers who arrested him appear to plant marijuana in the car Serrano was in. Serrano was charged with drug possession, resisting arrest, and obstruction. He pleaded guilty to resisting arrest…
Tags: NYPD
October 6, 2021 10:45 am
Loudmouthed NYPD Union Head Resigns Amid FBI Probe
Ed Mullins is innocent until proven guilty—a distinction he often didn’t extend to others.