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Crime

White Riot

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

Laura Nahmias New York Oct 2021 20min Permalink

Crime

It Wasn’t the First Time the NYPD Killed Someone in Crisis. For Kawaski Trawick, It Only Took 112 Seconds.

Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.

Eric Umansky ProPublica Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Business

The Complicated Business of Selling the NYPD Logo

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?

Kaitlyn Tiffany The Goods May 2019 10min Permalink

Crime

Investigating Hate

Inside New York City’s task force on bias.

Kathy Dobie Harper's Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

“The System Has Failed Me”

An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.

Josh Saul Newsweek Apr 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

Busted: The Secret NYPD Files

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

Kendall Taggart, Mike Hayes Buzzfeed Mar 2018 15min Permalink

Crime

The Trials of a Muslim Cop

Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.

Rachel Aviv New Yorker Sep 2017 35min Permalink

Crime

The Crack in the Shield

The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven - stationed in the war zone of 1980’s Crown Heights, Brooklyn - and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops

Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min Permalink

Crime

The NYPD Is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even if They Haven’t Committed a Crime

How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.

Sarah Ryley ProPublica, New York Daily News Feb 2016 25min Permalink

Crime

A Dangerous Mind

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

Robert Kolker New York Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Crime

The NYPD Division of Un-American Activities

How New York City built its own CIA.

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman New York Aug 2013 20min Permalink

Crime

Officer Serrano’s Hidden Camera

The battle over stop-and-frisk within the NYPD’s ranks.

Jennifer Gonnerman New York Jun 2013 25min Permalink

Crime

Review of 50 Brooklyn Murder Cases Ordered

During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.

Frances Robles, N.R. Kleinfield New York Times May 2013 10min Permalink

The Thin Blue Lie

An exposé of the New York Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.

David Noriega The New Inquiry Aug 2012 10min Permalink

Crime

What’s Eating the NYPD?

The toll of being a cop on the most successful force in the country.

Chris Smith New York Apr 2012 25min Permalink

Crime

The NYPD Tapes: Inside a Bed-Stuy Precinct

In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.

Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min Permalink