After a harsh rebuke from a federal judge who green-lit a class-action lawsuit against the New York Police Department over its stop-and-frisk tactics, police commissioner Ray Kelly said the program was being reevaluated, with more internal oversight and training.
Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics too heavily against the city's minorities.
In case there was any doubt: Yes, the New York police read blog comments and they will bust you for making threats on them, as they did a Gothamist commenter this week.
One rape allegation and a two-week hiatus later, police commissioner scion and local television host Greg Kelly was back on air wishing New Yorkers a good day -- without directly telling viewers why he'd left.
This is just kind of ... weird: Cops in New York are going to have to give up their NYPD T-shirts, coffee mugs, hats, and everything else with "NYPD" on it that's not their actual uniform while worn on duty.
Thanks to a plethora of unnamed sources, The New York Post has determined that the case against Greg Kelly is getting murkier.
The rape accusation against Greg Kelly, local Fox anchor and son of the New York police commissioner, is getting more complicated with the accuser saying she got pregnant from the alleged attack.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has had a really tough week, but with a day and a half to go before the weekend he gets a minor respite: The only Muslim member of New York's City Council defended that anti-Muslim film used in police training.
The allegations against the Good Day New York co-anchor add to his father's week of bad news.
The fallout from that terrible anti-Muslim police video just got a bit worse today as the NYPD commissioner acknowledges that he agreed to be interviewed for it.
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