New York City Police Department
The Eric Garner case created anger and frustration, but also has protesters ‘really energized’
Demonstrators have marched in cities across the US to protest a grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for the killing of Eric Garner. But while protesters say they’re angry and fearful, there are also encouraging signs in how black communities have rallied to each other.
The NYPD’s Secret Surveillance of Muslims: Its Impacts and Repercussions
The AP’s Pulitzer-winning series focused on the New York Police Department’s secret monitoring of Muslim communities. The NYPD transformed after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the AP found. With help from the Central Intelligence Agency – which is prohibited from spying on Americans – the NYPD developed aggressive surveillance tactics to spy on Muslim communities in New […]
NYPD Speaks About Use of Anti-Muslim Video
An 80-minute movie called “The Third Jihad,” produced by the Clarion Fund, asserts that a vast number of radical Islamic forces exist in the U.S. and are preparing a violent jihad against America. Last January, the NYPD revealed that this direct-to-DVD movie had been shown once during anti-terrorism officer training. But this week, following a […]
Cricket: ‘It’s What the Community Loves’
More than a billion people are expected to watch India play Pakistan in the Cricket World semi-final. It’s the first time the two countries have played since the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Watching from the U.S. are New York Police Department Detective Jeff Thompson and Sergeant Adeel Rana of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau. They help […]
NYPD spokesman on the arrest of the alleged Times Square would-be bomber
Federal authorities arrested a suspect allegedly responsible for a car bomb that was left to detonate in New York’s Times Square on Saturday. The 30-year-old man, Faisal Shahzad, was apprehended while trying to board an airplane to Dubai.