Public Safety
Posted inCriminal Justice
The Bronx DA is creating a database of private security camera locations to help ID suspected criminals. Civil liberties advocates are concerned.
Posted inParks
On-Duty NYCHA Repairman Charged With Sex Abuse in Tenant’s Apartment
On the year’s coldest day, an assistant electrician allegedly brought a woman to a flat where he was supposed to be making repairs and assaulted her.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Health, NYPD, Public Safety
The NYPD’s Mental Illness Response Breakdown
As 911 calls reporting emotionally disturbed people doubled in a decade, training lags and a key response team has been kept out of the loop.
Posted inCriminal Justice
20 Years After the NYPD Killing of Amadou Diallo, His Mom Asks: What’s Changed?
The Feb. 4, 1999, Bronx shooting of the unarmed African immigrant sparked demands for reform. But has there been progress over the past two decades?

