I don’t know how NY manages to mess up things other do OK. Things like bail reform, legal marijuana, hot dogs, and raise the age. I don’t get this. Really. Not being facetious. Advocates pushed for “raise the age” (moving 16- and 17-year-old offenders down to “family court”) to benefit them. It was supposed to…
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From 1968 to 1973, there is an interesting (to put it mildly) and surprisingly little-remembered part of NYPD history. The “Stake-Out Squad.” I’ve spoken to a few cops who remember its existence. One who was part of it. It’s impossible to imagine this unit existing today. And even back that it was controversial…. but very…
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Here are the first three of the NYPD Police Strategy books from 1994. Number 1: Guns Number 2: Youth Violence Number 3: Drugs
NYC subway murders from 1997-2020. There were 10 last year compared to zero in 2017. That’s an er, infinite(?) percent increase. We really had this under control until we permitted people to loiter and/or trespass in the subway system without consequence or ejection. That was a simple policy change directive issued to the Transit Police…
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I think this is the first time anybody has been able to compare police use-of-lethal force, apples-to-apples, over 50 years, with honest, reliable, and accurate data! It would be better to have total number of people shot by cops, simply to have a larger n (a bigger sample, for statistical reasons), but the problem is…
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