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Who Protects New Yorkers from the NYPD?

Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. The tragedy Heyward suffered has turned him into an activist. These days he spends much of his time calling for the Justice Department to review cases of alleged abuse committed by the NYPD, including that of his son's. Full story

The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray

The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I talked with them about the N… Full story

Kimani Gray and Two Weeks of Struggle in Flatbush, Brooklyn

Daily demonstrations in Flatbush began two weeks ago, after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was gunned down by two plainclothes cops with lengthy histories of misconduct, who ambushed the young man on the street, jumping from a vehicle and discharging seven shots, three into his back. Full story

Testilying: Cops Are Liars Who Get Away with Perjury

Misrepresentation, deception, and outright lying appear to be part of a police officer’s job description, so much so that the term “testilying,” now common vernacular for police falsifications, was actually coined by NYPD officers as something of an inside joke. Full story

Chipping Away at Stop-and-Frisk

Fifty-one-year-old Charles Bradley finished his shift as a security guard and took the subway to visit his estranged fiancée at his former house in the Bronx. It might have been a night of reconciliation. But instead, it was a night spent interrogated in a van and strip-searched… Full story

Filibustin' with Willie D - The NYPD Can Stop-and-Frisk These Nuts

What more proof do we need that this program is basically institutionalized racial profiling? Full story

Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street?

Inside the NYPD's lost and found. Full story

Riding In Cars With Boys

Life With the NYPD

You know what it's like to be a cop? It's boring. All you do is drive around all day and occasionally go listen to some shitty liar tell you a cockamamie story about what just happened. Then you get back into the car and drive some more. Full story

The NYPD From A-Z

A Cop Guides You Through

I know that the NYPD can seem like a big, blue, mustachioed, Orwellian enigma. It is—at least the top brass is. Full story

Undercover For A Day

Life in the CID

A while back I got the chance to tag along in an undercover police car for one shift. This is what happened. Full story