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jonathan mcintosh (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks your concerns about privacy in a world of city- and drone-mounted surveillance cameras are unimportant. His advice to radio audiences Friday morning? “Get used to it!”
Posted on Mar 23, 2013
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Flickr/Todd Lappin
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An anonymous police source tells the New York Post that the new directive could lead to the arrest of victims reporting domestic violence who have warrants on their record, even if they’re only for minor offenses such as unpaid parking tickets.
Posted on Mar 17, 2013
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jonny2love (CC BY 2.0)
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A Brooklyn landlord says New York City cops broke her leg and shackled her to a hospital bed for 17 days amid a wrongful arrest in her apartment building, the New York Post reports.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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According to Rush Limbaugh, since the left has normalized gay marriage, now it will do the same with pedophilia; the U.K. government has found a way to take British citizenship away from certain people who were then mysteriously killed by drones; meanwhile, a computer programmer in India may make teachers redundant as he shows how children can and should teach themselves. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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quinn.anya (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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There is no national record on the use of police force against American citizens nationwide, even though private police groups and the FBI keep a close watch on the number of cops killed and assaulted on the job, reports Radley Balko at The Huffington Post.
Posted on Dec 11, 2012
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Screenshot via WABC
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Authorities have arrested and charged a 28-year-old New York Police Department officer from Queens who is accused of planning to kidnap, cook and eat up to 100 women, including his girlfriend.
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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Stop-and-frisk is already considered a controversial tactic employed by the New York Police Department, but a recently released recording sheds light on just how discriminatory the practice can actually be. In the secretly taped audio, a 17-year-old named Alvin is heard being roughed up, threatened and demeaned by three officers as they stop and frisk him, all “for being a fucking mutt.”
Posted on Oct 9, 2012
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Kate B. Harding (CC BY 2.0)
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New Jersey’s attorney general has assured a group of Muslim leaders that a New York City police unit that had surveilled Muslims in the Garden State is no longer operating there.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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Jagz Mario (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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New York City officials are blaming Brookfield Properties, the owner of the park where Occupy Wall Street activists were camped for nearly two months, for thousands of dollars of damage done to books, computers and other property destroyed during the eviction of protesters.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
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AstroZombee23 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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The New York Police Department has acknowledged that all nine people wounded in the Empire State Building shootout Friday were hit with bullets fired by its officers.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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Public Domain Photos (CC BY 2.0)
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Technical advancements and plunging costs for digital storage mean that government surveillance programs no longer have to be selective about the data they store. And with the average person leaving a trail of Web browsing, emails, text messages and more, there’s plenty of information that can be filed away on individuals.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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AP/Louis Lanzano
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A 53-year-old apparel designer shot and killed his former boss on a sidewalk outside the Empire State Building in New York City on Friday morning before he was confronted and shot dead by police officers. Nine others were wounded.
Posted on Aug 24, 2012
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In an urgent and informed discussion on race relations spanning America’s early history to the stop-and-frisk policies of the present, author, historian and New York Public Library research director Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad tells Bill Moyers how the nation’s laws were written to control black Americans.
Posted on Aug 21, 2012
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Palinopsia_Films (CC BY 2.0)
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After eight months of study, legal researchers at NYU and Fordham University this week turned out a damning review of the NYPD’s behavior in policing the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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eflon (CC BY 2.0)
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The NYPD this week turned over an audio recording of a call between a confused New Jersey building superintendent and a 911 dispatcher, in which the caller reports discovering an apartment empty except for surveillance equipment. The room turned out to be a safe house for New York police officers spying on New Jersey’s Muslims.
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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Stig Nygaard (CC BY 2.0)
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
Has the NYPD, celebrated as the nation’s top counterterrorism cops, really helped thwart 14 “full-blown terrorist attacks”?
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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krossbow (CC BY 2.0)
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Devices that intercept calls and text messages and dig into data stored on your mobile phone are being marketed to police departments across the United States “as being perfect for covert operations in public order situations.” Or, as the ACLU’s Privacy SOS blog puts it: protests.
Posted on Jul 10, 2012
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Revelations about the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslims across the Northeast has prompted eight Americans in a Muslim advocacy group to file a suit demanding the department stop its monitoring and intelligence gathering program. “Democracy Now!” speaks with Glenn Katon (above), the group’s legal adviser.
Posted on Jun 7, 2012
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The Eyes of New York (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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OWS communications coordinator Shawn Carrié was walking home at 9 p.m. on May Day when nine plainclothes police officers approached him, took his belongings, placed him in handcuffs and put him in a van. He was questioned about his involvement in Occupy Wall Street and then spent the next 13 hours in jail.
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pameladrew212 (CC-BY)
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Occupiers are accusing New York police officers of beating and neglecting a woman who had a seizure after being handcuffed during the breakup of the movement’s six-month anniversary party in Zuccotti Park on Saturday night.
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Anonymous via Twitter
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You didn’t think Anonymous would stand idly by after the arrests of several members of the hacker collective’s extended network, did you? Well, it didn’t. On Friday, news broke that AntiSec, an Anonymous spinoff group, had struck at two companies in retaliation for the LulzSec bust that happened earlier in the week.
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AP / Mary Altaffer
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
ProPublica interviews co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at NYU School of Law Faiza Patel to explore whether New York police crossed the line.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
An AP report detailing NYPD surveillance of a New Jersey Muslim community conflicts with Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claims about how police operate.
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JRockefellerIV (CC-BY)
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New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s involvement in a blatantly anti-Muslim film used to train cadets has leaders of Muslim-American groups calling for his resignation. Debbie Almontaser, who chairs the Muslim Consultative Network, documents some of the NYPD’s acts of aggression against the Muslim community.
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Occupiers rang in the New Year on Saturday night with a game of tug-of-war with the NYPD at Zuccotti Park. Instead of rope, however, activists and police officers struggled over the metal barricades that have surrounded the area since late September. Dawn Sunday saw the barriers replaced and the park closed to the public.
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© Jeff Pappas
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Some of the nation’s most prestigious news organizations, including AP and The New York Times, are condemning New York City’s treatment of the media, writing in a letter that “police actions of last week have been more hostile ...” (more)
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zio Paolino (CC-BY)
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Neither Brookfield Properties nor the NYPD wants journalists asking questions about an unmarked truck that has been pointing a surveillance camera at protesters in Zuccotti Park for the past few weeks. So much so that a police officer declared journalist Nick Turse’s note-taking at the site to be illegal and ordered him to leave.
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Kenny Sun (CC-BY)
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By Amy Goodman — We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
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Photographer Jeff Pappas sends us these photos from a Burger King near Z Park the day after the NYPD trashed the encampment.
Posted on Nov 15, 2011
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Adam Gabbatt
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Hundreds of New York police officers rolled into Zuccotti Park just after 1 a.m. Tuesday with a dump truck and orders to clear the park, arrest the defiant and throw away their possessions. (more)
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The surprising October snowstorm Saturday showed that winter’s chill is fast descending on protesters encamped in New York City’s Liberty Plaza. Will they stay or will they go? We’ll find out in the weeks to come, but for now, Wall Street’s occupiers and their supporters seem determined to keep the movement alive. (more)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: It’s all about Occupy Wall Street, which Pulitzer Prize winner and guest David Cay Johnston says is unlike any movement he’s covered. Also: voices from Occupy L.A., Nomi Prins, Scott Tucker and the NYPD arrests journalists.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: It’s all about Occupy Wall Street, which Pulitzer Prize winner and guest David Cay Johnston says is unlike any movement he’s covered. Also: voices from Occupy L.A., Nomi Prins, Scott Tucker and the NYPD arrests journalists.
Posted on Oct 13, 2011
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_PaulS_ (CC-BY)
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In the battle protesters are waging against U.S. corporations in lower Manhattan, appeals to NYPD officers’ sense of class solidarity have so far failed to shake them from their traditional role. (more)
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Flickr / _PaulS_ (CC-BY-SA)
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Top-ranked New York police commanders helped arrest more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters Saturday when demonstrators left the sidewalks during a march and tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on the street, blocking traffic.
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Flickr / marniejoyce (CC-BY)
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Thousands of protesters have crowded Wall Street for the last 12 days, decrying the effects of corporate greed on a functioning democracy. Those protesters, Occupy Wall Street, are our Truthdiggers of the Week.
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Global Graphica / Ivan Corsa
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In a reactionary move against technology and the beasts who wield it, the NYPD has announced it wants to jam cell phone frequencies in case of a terrorist attack, citing Mumbai as an example of how mobile phones allowed attackers in that Indian city to micromanage their assault in real time.
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AP photo / Stephen Chernin
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Vowing that “this city is going to deal with the blood of Sean Bell,” the Rev. Al Sharpton joined hundreds of New Yorkers in a march through Harlem to protest this week’s acquittal of three police officers involved in the 2006 shooting that claimed the 23-year-old Bell’s life and injured two friends on his wedding day.
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From hollywoodinvestigator.com
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The N.Y. Times examines internal police reports in which NYPD commanders discuss their use of “proactive arrests,” covert surveillance and psychological tactics at antiwar rallies in 2002.
The country that wages preemptive war now has a city police force making “proactive” arrests.
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