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Newark to Probe NYPD Muslim Spying
Newark to
Probe NYPD Muslim Spying
Feb 22, 2012 12:11 PM CST

Newark to Probe NYPD Muslim Spying

After AP shows mayor huge file detailing snooping in the city

(Newser) - When the AP showed Newark Mayor Cory Booker a file detailing the extent to which the NYPD's " Demographics Unit " had spied on his city's Muslims, he was caught off-guard. "Wow," he said. "This raises a number of concerns." Soon after, he said...

NYPD Tracked Muslim Students Far Beyond City

Undercover work 'a violation of civil rights': chaplain

(Newser) - The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles away in Buffalo and even sent...

NYPD Chief's Son Won't Face Rape Charges

Greg Kelly was accused by paralegal

(Newser) - The son of NYPD chief Raymond Kelly will not face rape charges over a high-profile accusation that emerged last month, reports DNAinfo . Both the Daily News and New York Times also say that Greg Kelly—TV host of Good Day New York and the son of police chief Raymond Kelly—...

Cancer Rates Triple for 9/11 Cops

 Cancer Rates Triple 
 for 9/11 Cops 
study says
Feb 6, 2012 5:10 PM CST

Cancer Rates Triple for 9/11 Cops

Nearly 300 NYPD first responders have been diagnosed

(Newser) - The federal government denies any cancer danger for 9/11 first responders, but a new study begs to differ. The New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association released data today that cancer rates have nearly tripled among NYPD officers since the terror attack, the New York Post reports. The first-of-its-kind study also...

New York City Cops Can't Own NYPD Merchandise

That means no hats, shirts, even coffee mugs

(Newser) - The NYPD logo is emblazoned on everything from hats and shirts to tie clips and coffee mugs, but all those items are now off limits to New York City cops, reports Murray Weiss at DNA Info . Police chief Ray Kelly has issued a new rule forbidding the city's 35,...

More Than 1K NYPD Cops Trained With Anti-Muslim Film

FOIA request reveals that film was used more often than officials claimed

(Newser) - Not one, not two, but at least 1,489 NYPD officers viewed an anti-Muslim film during their training, the New York Times reports in a disturbing look at The Third Jihad . The film, funded by a nonprofit group, features images including Muslim terrorists shooting Christians and a doctored photo of...

New York Cop Commits Suicide on the Job

Shoots himself after feud with girlfriend

(Newser) - A New York police officer shot himself in the face last night while on duty following a telephone argument with his girlfriend. Local residents heard a gunshot and found the 28-year-old officer's body on the street in Queens, the New York Daily News reports; he and his partner were...

NYPD Developing Infrared Gun Scanner

Device can detect concealed weapons from 13 feet away

(Newser) - Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just radiating suspicious energy? The New York City Police Department is working with the Defense Department to develop an infrared scanner that can detect concealed weapons, Commissioner Ray Kelly announced yesterday. The device reads the energy people emit and detects...

Cops Nab 50 Occupiers Entering Church Lot

New York protesters seeking new camp site

(Newser) - Dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested today after they scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to an Episcopal church-owned lot they want to use for a new camp site. Protesters used a wooden ladder to scale the fence or lifted it from below while...

Cop Shoots NYC Subway Groper

Suspect shot as he grappled with cop on platform

(Newser) - A New York City subway rider accused of groping the buttocks of two teens ended up with a bullet in the lower back after grappling with an off-duty cop. The officer confronted the man at a Harlem station after two young women, a 13-year-old and an 18-year-old, said they had...

Latest Vile Facebook Comments Made by ... NYPD

'Drop a bomb and wipe them all out,' one said of West Indian Day Parade

(Newser) - The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau is looking into some extremely ill-advised comments made on a public Facebook page, which appear to have been written by officers posting under their real names in September. Officers complaining about having to police Brooklyn's annual—and usually violence-plagued—West Indian American Day...

FBI Passed on Bomb-Plot Case Over Entrapment Fears

Sources question whether Jose Pimentel could have built a bomb without help

(Newser) - The NYPD tried more than once to bring the FBI on board its investigation of alleged would-be terrorist Jose Pimentel , but the bureau passed each time because it didn’t think Pimentel was a threat without help he received from the NYPD, according to new reports. In the FBI’s...

NYPD Arrest Ex-Philly Cop During Occupy

Former captain slams New York police for using force

(Newser) - New York police rounded up an unlikely suspect during some 300 Occupy arrests the other day: a former Philadelphia police captain. Ray Lewis was even in uniform when cops hauled him off and slapped plastic cuffs on him during the Occupy "Day of Action" on Thursday, the Daily Mail ...

Judge Rules Against Zuccotti Park Protesters

Says Mayor Bloomberg had right to clear Occupy Wall Street protesters

(Newser) - A New York judge has upheld the city's dismantling of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying that the protesters' First Amendment rights don't entitle them to camp out indefinitely in the plaza. Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman today denied a motion by the demonstrators seeking to be allowed...

Protesters Gather Again Near Zuccotti Park

Police, demonstrators await judge's ruling on legality of eviction

(Newser) - Marchers were clogging the streets around empty Zuccotti Park this afternoon, awaiting a judge's decision on whether they can return after this morning's raid . Some other developments from DNA Info , the New York Times , and the AP :
  • More protests: Minor clashes were reported throughout the day as demonstrators
...

NYPD Cops Turn Selves In on Ticket-Fixing Charges

Crowd of fellow officers show up to support them

(Newser) - Fifteen NYPD cops turned themselves in to face corruption charges at around midnight today, as a crowd of around 100 fellow officers gathered to scream their support for them—and heap abuse on the Internal Affairs detectives bringing them down, the New York Post reports. A 16th cop was arrested...

NYPD Cops Accused in Gun-Smuggling Sting

They allegedly tried to move weapons they thought were stolen

(Newser) - A sting operation resulted in the arrest today of five New York Police Department officers on charges that they smuggled firearms, cigarettes, and slot machines they thought were stolen, federal authorities said. The officers were among 12 people charged in a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Manhattan. Three...

Officers Gave Me Drugs, Forced Sex Acts: Junkie

Brooklyn trial continues to reveal scandalous details

(Newser) - Another embarrassing revelation from the NYPD police corruption trial taking place in Brooklyn: Narcotics officers gave junkie Melanie Perez crack and made her perform sex acts in return, she testified last week. Perez testified in Brooklyn Supreme Court during the trial of Jason Arbeeny, one of eight undercover officers charged...

Mom Packs Books, Lunch, Pistol for 6-Year-Old

Retired detective leaves gun in school bag

(Newser) - One 6-year-old girl surprised her classmates at a New York school this week by opening her bag and brandishing a .25-caliber handgun—left courtesy of her mom, a retired NYPD detective. "No one was hurt—but maybe she don't know it's a real gun and bang, bang,...

NYPD Strips Pepper-Spray Cop of Vacation Days

Anthony Bologna loses 10 days for spraying two female protesters

(Newser) - The New York City cop who pepper-sprayed a pair of Occupy Wall Street protesters in a seemingly unprovoked attack that got caught on YouTube has been punished, at least a little. The NYPD has docked Anthony Bologna 10 vacation days for violating the department's guidelines on pepper spray, reports...

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