organization:new york city police

Subway Policing in New York City Still Has A Race Problem.
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or New York City police, turnstile jumping has long been much more than a class A misdemeanor. The strict policing of people evading the fare on public transit was justified as an all-purpose solution to the rampant crime that plagued the city’s subways in the 1980s. It became one of the first examples for the New York Police Department that cracking down on minor offenses—the controversial “broken windows” theory of policing—might restore order to the city.

This story was produced in partnership with Gothamist.
But New York might be changing its mind about turnstile jumping. With broken windows strategies increasingly discredited by many criminologists, a more lenient approach to this minor offense has taken root in New York’s courts, and perhaps from there found its way onto subway platforms across the city. Last year, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that his office would stop prosecuting most cases of fare evasion, which includes riding public transit without paying the fare through any number of means: jumping over or under a subway turnstile, boarding a bus through the back door or failing to pay for a cab. Public defenders across the city observe that the vast majority of fare evasion cases come from the subways. Since Vance’s announcement, such arrests dropped from a high of 25,000 in 2016 and are now on track to be fewer than 10,000 this year. The NYPD has said that the majority of turnstile jumpers are issued civil summonses, not arrested. Some city leaders wonder though—should turnstile jumping be a crime at all?

IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/nypd-surveillance-camera-skin-tone-search

In the decade after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City Police Department moved to put millions of New Yorkers under constant watch. Warning of terrorism threats, the department created a plan to carpet Manhattan’s downtown streets with thousands of cameras and had, by 2008, centralized its video surveillance operations to a single command center. Two years later, the NYPD announced that the command center, known as the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center, had integrated (...)

#IBM #algorithme #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #surveillance #discrimination #NYPD

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ICE Has Conducted Hundreds of Raids in New York Since Trump Came to Power. Here’s What Those Operations Look Like.
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/ice-raids-in-new-york

It was approximately 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday morning in early April when the pounding on the front door began. The sun was still coming up over New York City as a man The Intercept will call Michael jumped out of bed to investigate the commotion. Michael opened the door and found three men and one woman wearing tactical vests standing outside. They were accompanied by a man with a camera, already recording. The law enforcement officials, who Michael assumed were New York City police (...)

#ICE #migration #surveillance

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NYPD Refuses to Disclose Information About Its Face Recognition Program, So Privacy Researchers Are Suing
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/nypd-refuses-to-disclose-information-about-its-face-recognition-progra

Researchers at Georgetown University law school filed a Freedom of Information lawsuit against the New York City Police Department today for the agency’s refusal to disclose documents about its longstanding use of face recognition technology. The NYPD’s face recognition system, which has operated in the department’s Real Time Crime Center since at least 2011, allows officers to identify a suspect by searching against databases of stored facial photos. Records pertaining to the NYPD’s program (...)

#NYPD #immatriculation #criminalité #biométrie #facial #automobilistes #surveillance (...)

##criminalité ##vidéo-surveillance

Justice For Cecily McMillan
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Cecily McMillan was sexually assaulted by a New York City Police Officer. She was than beaten, knocked unconscious, falsely arrested, and than convicted of assaulting a police officer. Her...

NYPD chief: Anti-Arab hate crimes in Israel are ’terrorism’ -
Haaretz, By Matthew Kalman | May 13, 2014 |
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.590427

Bill Bratton, the New York City Police Commissioner whose radical policies in the 1990s under Mayor Rudy Giuliani are credited with making the streets of New York City safer, urged Israeli police chiefs on Tuesday to stamp out as “terrorism” the anti-Arab hate crimes known as price tag attacks.

The commissioner was in Israel participating in the Public Security Ministry’s Violence Prevention Week.

“I’ve discussed these ’price tag’ attacks with Israeli police officials in the past few days and I know the debate here is, Do you treat it as terrorism or do you treat it as vandalism?” Bratton told Haaretz.

“It is a form of terrorism. It is all about creating hate,” Bratton said.

NYPD Trolled Jails Hoping to Turn Muslims into Informants
▻https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/05/11-1

Despite an announcement last month that the New York City Police Department had disbanded a controversial surveillance unit, the New York Times reports on Sunday that the department has continued to systematically target the city’s Muslim communities by recruiting individuals arrested of petty crimes to act as informants for so-called “terrorist investigations.”

New York #Police Department is beta-testing #Google_Glass | VentureBeat | Gadgets | by Richard Byrne Reilly
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The New York City Police Department’s massive and controversial intelligence and analytics unit is evaluating whether Google Glass is a decent fit for investigating terrorists and helping cops lock up bad guys, VentureBeat has learned. The department recently received several pairs of the modernist-looking specs to test out.

“We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes,” a ranking New York City law enforcement official told VentureBeat.

“We’re looking at them, you know, seeing how they work.”

#surveillance #silicon_army

America cares for you – until you start asking questions | #Gary_Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/12/us-justice-laid-bare-paternalistic-logic

When Ray Kelly, the man Barack #Obama is currently considering to lead homeland security, was the New York City police commissioner, he allegedly had a policy of terrorising black and Latino neighbourhoods.

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Following Zimmerman’s acquittal, Obama was keen to point out that “America is a nation of laws”. Nobody doubts that. What is less clear is whether it is a nation of justice.

#Droit #justice #Zimmerman

Spying on Law-Abiding Muslims
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Nearly 30 years ago, the federal courts had to place limits on New York City police surveillance to protect law-abiding citizens who happened to be politically engaged on civil rights and other issues. Based on new court filings in a longstanding suit challenging police surveillance techniques, the courts may need to intervene to stop the New York Police Department from spying on law-abiding citizens once again, this time Muslims.

Report: Secret NYPD Muslim Spy Unit Failed to Yield a Single Lead
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Report: Secret NYPD Muslim Spy Unit Failed to Yield a Single Lead

The New York City Police Department has admitted its elaborate CIA-aided efforts to spy on Muslim neighborhoods over a period of more than six years through a secret police unit failed to yield a terrorism investigation or even a single lead. The NYPD spy program included efforts to infiltrate Muslim student groups, send informants into mosques, eavesdrop on conversations and create databases showing where Muslims lived, worked and prayed. The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for its series revealing how the NYPD conducted widespread spying on Muslim Americans throughout the eastern United States without evidence of wrongdoing. The AP now reports court records unsealed Monday show information collected by the NYPD’s secret Demographics Unit did not spark a single investigation.

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STATEMENT OF MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON CLEARING AND RE-OPENING OF ZUCCOTTI PARK

“At one o’clock this morning, the New York City Police Department and the owners of Zuccotti Park notified protestors in the park that they had to immediately remove tents, sleeping bags and other belongings, and must follow the park rules if they wished to continue to use it to protest. Many protestors peacefully complied and left. At Brookfield’s request, members of the NYPD and Sanitation Department assisted in removing any remaining tents and sleeping bags. This action was taken at this time of day to reduce the risk of confrontation in the park, and to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood.

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Unfortunately, the park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others. There have been reports of businesses being threatened and complaints about noise and unsanitary conditions that have seriously impacted the quality of life for residents and businesses in this now-thriving neighborhood. The majority of protestors have been peaceful and responsible. But an unfortunate minority have not been – and as the number of protestors has grown, this has created an intolerable situation.

An Important Video to Watch: Pepper-Spray by a Cruel and Cowardly NYC Cop - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/an-important-video-to-watch-pepper-spray-by-a-cruel-and-cowardly-nyc-cop/245629

(Update below.) Unless there is something faked about this video, which is on the NYT’s City Room site and is based on annotation and slow-mo apparently from USLaw.com, a uniformed New York City police officer abused power in a way that was cruel and cowardly during yesterday’s Wall Street protests. It’s worth the time to watch.

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