NYPD
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...
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...
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...
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?
A Cop's Life: Rookie To Retiree In 20 Years
The typical NYPD career takes a well-trod course. You go to school, you get assigned to a random post somewhere in the five boroughs, you do a few years there, then you make detective or take a civil service test and become a sergeant.
Cobra-91
After the war in Iraq started, I spent a lot of time supervising "Cobra" counterterrorism cops assigned to chemical & biological warfare response teams in Lower Manhattan-you know, the guys in the bubble suits that scare everyone half to death?
What Do You Think It's Like To Be A Cop In New York?
I wouldn’t want to be a cop in America. In a big city like New York it can be very dangerous. I saw a documentary on TV about what they do everyday and it was just like what you see in the movies.
Undercover For A Day
A while back I got the chance to tag along in an undercover police car for one shift. This is what happened.
The NYPD From A-Z
I know that the NYPD can seem like a big, blue, mustachioed, Orwellian enigma. It is—at least the top brass is.
Vice Fashion - The Girls Of Forensics
Photos by Richard Kern. Shot on location at the lovely Firing Line indoor shooting range in Pearl River, New York.
"I Am a Cop."
I am a street cop. I'm the guy that straps on a bullet resistant (we never say "bulletproof") vest and gun belt every day. I am the guy in the uniform driving the car that says NYPD on the side.