Mayor Adams on Fake Plate Crackdown: ‘This Time, It Will Happen Because Eric Adams is Mayor’
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OK, bad guys, now you're really really on notice.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NYPD
Brooklyn Pol Tears Up Describing Brutal Treatment at Hands (and Bikes) of Cops
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Police justified cops’ excessive use of force against a Brooklyn state pol during a protest after the murder of George Floyd two years ago. But state Sen. Zellnor Myrie testified that the officer in question used excessive force.
No Courtesy, Professionalism or Respect for the Dead: Funeral Homes Blast Placard Abuse
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The only three certainties in life are death, taxes, and placard abuse.
Monday’s Headlines: Gross NYPD Car Culture Edition
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The NYPD went from crushing illegal vehicles to celebrating them in the space of a week. Plus other news from a busy, bloody weekend.
Weekend Road Carnage Kills Three, Injures at Least Seven, as Bad Old Days Return
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Car drivers killed at least three people and injured seven others — including an 11-year-old boy struck by the unlicensed driver of an ice cream truck — in separate Brooklyn incidents this weekend, police said.
Did the City Just Blame a Pedestrian for Her Death on Crosswalk-Free Flatlands Ave.?
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A pedestrian was killed along a dangerous stretch of Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn, but Department of Transportation officials suggested she was at fault for crossing "mid-block" — even though the long stretch of roadway where she died runs more than one-sixth of a mile between traffic lights.