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Many Complaints, Few Results and Call for Reform

Joseph A. Diaz’s problems with the police began in 2007. He was sitting on the stoop of his apartment building in the Bronx, smoking a cigarette, when a police officer approached him and, according to Mr. Diaz, asked him for identification. “Why are ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  4 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bill de Blasio,  Raymond W. Kelly

Mob Infiltration Seen in City Agency

The latest indictment to hit the New York City Buildings Department taps into the usual themes of bribery, corruption and compromised inspections. But it also introduces a new criminal element into the agency: the mob. Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert M. Morgenthau

Police Identify Post Office Stabbing Suspect From Photos and Video

With crystal-clear pictures of him in wide circulation and video of a fatal confrontation in the Police Department’s hands, it seemed only a matter of time before the man suspected in a brazen stabbing in front of the city’s main post office on Sunday ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly

Officer Passed Blood-Alcohol Test 7 Hours After Fatal Accident

An off-duty New York City police officer charged with driving under the influence after his sport utility vehicle struck and killed a woman in Brooklyn early Sunday had no alcohol in his system when a blood test was performed seven hours later, a law ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly

Police Identify Suspect in Stabbing Outside Post Office

New York Police Department A passer-by took photos of a man sought in a deadly stabbing in Manhattan on Sunday. The police have identified a man named Sirmone McCaulla as a suspect in the stabbing death of Christopher Gutierrez on Sunday in front of ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, NYT: City Room,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Police Department

A Fatal Stabbing on a Busy City Sidewalk

The circumstances seemed improbable for a fatal encounter. It was broad daylight, in front of one of the city’s largest national landmarks, near a Midtown street often crowded with pedestrians and commuters. There were police cameras and plenty of ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  28 Sep 2009

Second Officer Suspended in Fatal D.W.I. Accident

As the family of a Brooklyn woman who was killed by a vehicle the police said was driven by a drunken off-duty officer accepted condolences, a police union representative said on Monday that the Police Department had suspended a second officer in the ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly

Woman Killed Hailing Cab; Officer Held in Accident

An off-duty police officer was charged on Sunday with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated after, according to the police and relatives, the sport utility vehicle he was driving struck and killed a Brooklyn woman who was hailing a taxi. ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly,  Jeep

Hotel Worker Is Charged With Strangling a Woman

A hotel worker was charged on Sunday with killing a 48-year-old woman who was found strangled, with a bread knife plunged into her neck, at a condominium and hotel complex on Central Park South, the police said. The suspect, Derrick W. Praileau, 29, of ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  20 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Raymond W. Kelly

Man Dies After Fight at Homeless Shelter

A 39-year-old man living in a Bowery homeless shelter has died after he was injured in a fight with another resident late Tuesday, the police said on Wednesday. The man, Paul Green, was at the Palace Employment Residence at 317 Bowery, near East Second ...

From CHRISTINE HAUSER, The New York Times,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Paul Green

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