Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 9, 2015
Young black men in Bedford-Stuyvesant, "a historically black neighborhood of high-rise public housing, low-rent houses, and expanding pockets of gentrification," have felt the effect of the NYPD's "slowdown" protest against Mayor Bill de Blasio. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigDec 24, 2014
It is absurd to have to say this, but New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, activist Al Sharpton and President Obama are in no way responsible for the coldblooded assassination of two police officers in Brooklyn on Saturday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 22, 2014
Inflammatory remarks made by Patrick Lynch over the past many weeks of sometimes fatal tension between police officers and private citizens are grounds for dismissal from the force, retired NYPD Detective Graham Weatherspoon says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 21, 2014
The suspect committed suicide after killing two officers sitting in a patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigDec 8, 2014
The murder of unarmed citizens by police is not only about racism. It is an example of the omnipotence of the corporate state and the evisceration of the rule of law. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 10, 2014
Legal justifications taken up by lawyers for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to defend the NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities are the same initially put forward by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJul 28, 2014
In a Salon review Sunday of Ralph Nader's spring 2014 book "Unstoppable," Bill Curry, former White House counselor to President Bill Clinton, takes Democrats led by Clinton and Barack Obama to task for making their party an indentured servant of Wall Street and gifting economic populism to the right. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigApr 21, 2014
New York's new mayor offers no apologies for waging war on economic inequality, for taking his time in making key appointments, or for riling advocates of charter schools. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 16, 2014
After the closure of a police unit that indiscriminately investigated American Muslims, civil rights groups want the NYPD to eliminate all traces of the operation. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 8, 2014
The New York City mayor announced Monday that he would act on plans to include Muslim holidays in the public school calendar. Journalist Uzma Kolsy says it's not enough. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 3, 2014
New York City's newly installed mayor, Bill de Blasio, has tapped Bill Bratton to run the NYPD under his watch, and the returning chief stepped up Thursday with a plan to target and reduce one of the most controversial tactics practiced by the city's police force. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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