Streetsblog FOILs NYPD for Data on Crashes Involving Police
Streetsblog has filed a freedom of information request for NYPD data on traffic crashes involving NYPD personnel.
March 29, 2016
NYPD Clears Hit-and-Run Driver and Blames Deceased Victim in the Press
NYPD says a man struck by a hit-and-run driver in East Harlem killed himself by lying in the street. While psychologizing the deceased victim to the press, police defended the driver, and filed no charges against him for leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
March 24, 2016
Driver Who Killed Charity Hicks Pleads to Homicide and Leaving the Scene
The hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a Detroit woman as she waited for a bus in Hell's Kitchen pled guilty to homicide and felony leaving the scene. He will serve a minimum of two and a maximum of six years in prison, pursuant to a judge's plea offer.
March 22, 2016
NYPD: Teacher Killed by Cop in Crosswalk “Assumed Risk” by Crossing Street
NYPD and the city Law Department are fighting a lawsuit filed by the family of a Brooklyn man who was killed in a crosswalk by an on-duty officer, on the grounds that the victim behaved recklessly by crossing the street.
March 22, 2016
Citing FDNY Concerns, DOT Removes Two-Block Protected Bike Connection
DOT has erased a short contraflow protected bikeway that linked the Highbridge neighborhood to the car-free High Bridge in response to FDNY concerns about the movement of emergency vehicles. The project was part of a package of biking and walking improvements in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan implemented last year, timed to coincide with the re-opening of the High Bridge to the public [PDF].
March 17, 2016